U.S. Supreme Court wrestles with Obamacare contraception case

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 News, topNews

U.S. Supreme Court justices grappled on Wednesday with whether President Donald Trump's administration went too far in allowing employers to obtain broad religious and moral exemptions from an Obamacare requirement that health insurance that they provide employees covers women's birth control.

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U.S. Supreme Court hears Obamacare contraception Case; Ginsburg takes part

May 6, 2020 News, topNews

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday considered a bid by Donald Trump's administration to implement rules allowing employers to obtain religious exemptions from an Obamacare requirement that health insurance that they provide to employees covers women's birth control.
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Supreme Court Hears Case On Birth Control Access And Obamacare

May 6, 2020 News

The justices heard arguments remotely about whether the Trump administration can allow employers with religious or moral objections to limit their employees' access to free birth control.
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Supreme Court struggles with Trump administration’s limits on birth control coverage

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 News

It is the latest dispute over the expansion of health-care benefits for women under the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. Supreme Court hears Obamacare contraception mandate dispute

May 6, 2020 News, topNews

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hear a bid by President Donald Trump's administration to implement federal rules allowing employers to obtain religious exemptions from an Obamacare requirement that health insurance that they provide to employees covers women's birth control. <...

Supreme Court to hear Obamacare contraceptive mandate challenge via telephone

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 News

The Supreme Court will take up the Trump administration's attempt to weaken the so-called contraceptive mandate Wednesday, the Affordable Care Act's long controversial requirement that employer-provided health insurance plans cover birth control as a preventive service.
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Biden campaign hits Trump amid Arizona visit

May 5, 2020 News

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for President Trump to reopen state health care exchanges operated under the Affordable Care Act.The statement came as Trump traveled to Arizona and noted the state...

Barr urges Trump administration to back off call to fully strike down Obamacare

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 News

Attorney General William Barr made a last-minute push Monday to persuade the administration to modify its position in the Obamacare dispute that will be heard at the Supreme Court this fall, arguing that the administration should pull back from its insistence that the entire law be struck down.
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Free coverage for contraceptives? Supreme Court again considers religious exemptions

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 News

The justices' willingness to hear a dispute the high court has considered twice before probably bodes well for the Obamacare provision's challengers.

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Trump nominee, once a Supreme Court clerk, still unhappy at how Obamacare ruling played out

May 3, 2020 News

Judge Justin Walker, now nominated to a powerful federal court dubbed "the second highest" in the nation, remains bitter that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act eight years ago.

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