Hobby Lobby continues to battle the Federal Government over implementing America’s new health care policy, sometimes called “Obamacare”, and may have found a loophole to avoid $1.3 million in daily fines for not complying.
Hobby Lobby announced a day after a December Supreme Court ruling that went against it that it “is not their intention, as a company, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs” that Obamacare mandates and that it would continue the legal battle.
“Hobby Lobby discovered a way to shift the plan year for its employee health insurance, thus postponing the effective date of the mandate for several months,” a lawyer for the company said on Friday. “Hobby Lobby does not provide coverage for abortion-inducing drugs in its healthcare plan. Hobby Lobby will continue to vigorously defend its religious liberty and oppose the mandate and any penalties.”
After President Barrack Obama won re-election, his new health care plan was all but certain to become law. However, not everyone is in favor of the government forcing individuals and companies to purchase health care nor all the provisions in the law.
Hobby Lobby CEO David Green said in a November statement that “a new government health care mandate says that our family business MUST provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health insurance.”
Green said that with “great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it hurts our business.”
CNN reported on Friday that “Churches and houses of worship are exempt from the regulation and a narrow exemption was added for nonprofit religious employers whose employees ‘primarily share its religious tenets’ and who ‘primarily serve persons who share its religious tenets.'”
Hobby Lobby has seen some support from the general public, with a special shopping day known as “Standing with Hobby Lobby Day” being observed across the country on January 5th.
NIT readers have shown mixed support for Hobby Lobby’s cause.
One NIT reader wrote “I’m sorry, but why does hobby lobby think that they are above the law. The Affordable Health Care Act has already passed the scrutiny of the Supreme Court, so live with it.”
Another NIT reader wrote “I believe in separation of church and state in our country. I also believe of freedom from religion in this country. But I also believe that a private employer should not be required to pay for something that is against his beliefs.”
People should be allowed to use what they want. The pill, abortion, morning after pill, abortion pill, condoms. They are all out there to either stop a life from starting, or to end one after it has begun. Sorta like the last school shooting, ending a life after it has begun. Just a thought.
Taken from Mayo Clinic site:
Morning-after pills do not end a pregnancy that has implanted. Depending on where you are in your menstrual cycle, morning-after pills may act by one or more of the following actions: delaying or preventing ovulation, blocking fertilization, or keeping a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. However, recent evidence strongly suggests that Plan B One-Step and Next Choice do not inhibit implantation. It’s not clear if the same is true for Ella.
Keep in mind that the morning-after pill isn’t the same as mifepristone (Mifeprex), also known as RU-486 or the abortion pill. Mifeprex terminates an established pregnancy — one in which the fertilized egg has attached to the uterine wall and has already begun to develop.
HENSE the “morning after pill does NOT cause abortions. People really should use the internet to reasearch before they open mouths and make fools of themselves. Instead of relying on church lady gossip mongers for your info.
All this controversary over who should pay for healthcare, condemning companies who want to pay what they want….did you all wonder why healthcare is tied to a business in the first place? If everyone had to buy their own insurance, they could go from job to job and wouldn’t have to stay employed where they are unhappy just because they don’t want to lose their ins. Also did you ever stop to think that all this clamoring over having Obamacare as the law, that Obama himself, the entire government and all their families don’t want Obamacare. They have better coverage we are paying for them Obama was asked point blank the other day if he was going to let loose of his insurance and go with Obamacare like the rest of us are being forced to do? He wouldn’t answer. HE WOULD NOT ANSWER!!!! He, Pelosi, Reid all those government people are opting out. You and me, why we are so lucky to be able to be forced into insurance they won’t accept for themselves. Think about it. Keep the government out of my life. We are free to do as we want, within reason and these freedoms are slowly being eroded. If Obamacare isn’t good enough for our government people, then it’s not good enough for us either.