Via Healthwatch:
Congressional Republicans aren’t impressed with President Obama’s new policy on contraception and religious institutions.
Leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said they still plan to move a bill that would make further changes to the administration’s mandate.
Obama said Friday that religious institutions like Catholic hospitals and universities will not have to include contraception in their employees’ healthcare plans or notify employees that they can get birth control directly from their insurer instead. But Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said the policy is still an affront to religious freedom.
“The administration has simply reaffirmed that Congressional action to permanently reverse this mandate is necessary,” Upton said in a statement.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) also dismissed the White House’s “accommodations,” saying the only solution is full repeal of the requirement that employers cover contraception without a co-pay.
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This is NO "accomodation"-- it is an ADDITIONAL MANDATE that requires the insurer to provide "contraception services" while at the same time preventing them from recovering the cost of those services, when the services originate specifically from Catholic providers. The insurers will simply terminate Catholic providers as qualified providers-- EXACTLY what this president wants to happen, apparently. SHAMEFUL.
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