Affordable Care Act
Analysis: Congregations can’t make up for proposed federal budget cuts
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 26, 2017
(RNS) Based on an analysis by Bread for the World, every religious congregation in the U.S. would have to raise an additional $714,000 every year for the next 10 years to make up for the 2018 budget cuts President Trump has proposed.
The ethics of health care explained: Am I my brother’s keeper?
By Tom Krattenmaker — March 15, 2017
(RNS) The individual mandate frames the never-resolved question that goes to the heart of our society’s idea of itself as a moral, Christian nation, or at least a Christian-influenced one. What obligation do we have to our fellow citizens?
Catholic bishops urge Congress to preserve health care coverage
By David Gibson — January 18, 2017
(RNS) In a shift from past opposition, the hierarchy is warning the GOP-controlled Congress not to repeal Obamacare without providing a replacement that provides as much coverage.
Why abortion may increase during a Donald Trump presidency
By Jana Riess — January 12, 2017
Despite his promises to repeal Roe v. Wade, Donald Trump’s economic policies are poised to Make America Abortion-great Again. He's creating the perfect storm of conditions for abortion rates to start ticking upwards.
Supreme Court sends ‘contraceptive mandate’ cases back to lower courts
By Jerome Socolovsky — May 16, 2016
WASHINGTON — The justices unanimously sent the cases back to federal appeals courts in hopes that they can emerge with a way to honor the objections of religious nonprofit groups.
Why the Supreme Court’s solution was an offer nonprofits couldn’t refuse (COMMENTARY)
By Mark Silk — April 13, 2016
(RNS) The nonprofits decided to embrace the court’s suggestion as the best deal they could get and simply grant that it doesn’t jeopardize their religious freedom.
Can the religious non-profits be accommodated?
By Mark Silk — April 11, 2016
On the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate, I don't think so.
2 young women, 2 polar views on contraception case
By Lauren Markoe — March 23, 2016
(RNS) Two Christians named Katie. Two views on whether the Affordable Care Act violates or protects freedom.
Religious groups try to sway Supreme Court in birth control case
By Lauren Markoe — March 22, 2016
(RNS)More than 40 groups, many faith-based, filed friend-of-the-court briefs opposing the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act.
‘All or nothing’ Obamacare objections threaten religious liberty (COMMENTARY)
By Holly Hollman — March 21, 2016
(RNS) Religious liberty is often threatened by government indifference or oversight, but here it is endangered by exaggerated claims and overreaching.
Here’s why the Little Sisters will lose (COMMENTARY)
By Mark Silk — November 10, 2015
(RNS) The Supreme Court will uphold the requirement that religious nonprofits sign a waiver to avoid paying for contraceptive services.
Supreme Court faces new challenges to Obamacare’s ‘contraceptive mandate’
By Richard Wolf — October 30, 2015
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is about to climb back into Americans' bedrooms.
Where clergy need to tread: Helping make end-of-life medical choices (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — September 29, 2015
(RNS) Even a perfunctory visit to a hospital ward, ER, home for the aged, hospice or medical clinic brings a clergyperson face-to-face with the staggering ethical problems our health care system is creating.
Wheaton drops student health insurance to avoid Obamacare contraception mandate
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — August 2, 2015
The 'evangelical Harvard' rejects any "accommodation" that would let insurers offer the coverage to students directly. Wheaton's lawyer said signing a letter citing religious beliefs to opt out of the coverage unacceptable.
Nuns lose latest court battle to avoid contraception mandate
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — July 14, 2015
(RNS) The Little Sisters of the Poor -- who have refused to comply with the Affordable Care Act contraception mandate -- lost their latest court case Tuesday (July 14).
