MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Hobby Lobby may find it hard to find a insurance provider next season. According to this report because insurers are being stuck with the bill on the religious affiliates that are exempt from the original ACA compromise.
While free birth-control coverage is required under the Affordable Care Act, the insurance administrators providing it for workers at religious-affiliated groups say the current solution has left them stuck with the bill.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare, insurers and employers offering health benefits are required to cover all U.S.-approved forms of birth control with no out-of-pocket costs. President Barack Obama's administration carved out an exemption for religious organizations that object. To make sure women got the coverage, outside companies that administer health plans for religious groups were required to pay for it, with government reimbursement to follow.
It's a complex solution that hasn't worked in the real world, said the third-party administrators, or TPAs, providing the birth-control benefit, because the government hasn't figured out how to pay them back.
Without a solution, the benefits administrators may ultimately choose to drop clients with religious objections to covering birth control, Ferguson said. Nonprofits and businesses with religious owners that refuse to cover the benefit would have to change the way they provide health benefits as a result, adding to disruptions from the health-care law.