HHS mandate

How Exactly Will the HHS Mandate Kill Religious Freedom?

by Gail Finke on June 18, 2013 · 7 comments

If you’re a religious non-profit and you don’t file a 990 with the IRS, you’re off the hook. The US government says you are allowed to follow your beliefs and refuse to pay for your female  employees’ birth control devices…

Let Freedom Ring? Let Jesus Reign!

by Louie Verrecchio on June 6, 2013 · 5 comments

Flipping around the radio dial a few weeks ago, I made a 90 second pit stop on Mark Levin’s program, about as long as I can stand most conservative talking heads lately.
It’s not that we don’t share similar objectives…

Faith Under Fire: An HHS Mandate Cautionary Tale

by Gail Finke on May 6, 2013 · 0 comments

Of the dozens of private companies suing the government over the Department of Health and Human Services mandate for employers to provide sterilization and early stage abortifacients, Eden Food Corp. has been the most controversial.
Since filing suit, Eden Foods…

Obama Wants Us to Pay for Abortion-Causing Devices, Too!

by Steven Mosher and Elizabeth Crnkovich on April 25, 2013 · 2 comments

Obamacare’s so-called “contraceptive mandate” has been much in the news. But much of what the administration calls “contraception” is actually abortion.
Take the copper IUD, for example. It is advertised as a contraceptive device, but even the New York Times,…

Faith Under Fire: Sebelius Jumps the Gun

by Gail Finke April 23, 2013

So much for the HHS public comment process.
On the final day public comments were being accepted about proposed revisions to a hotly contested HHS rule, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told participants in a livestreamed propaganda presentation — err, healthcare…

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Obama’s Bogus Equality

by Russell Shaw April 21, 2013

As all the world surely knows by now, “equality” is the ideological key to President Obama’s domestic policies. That all people are created equal, the president says, is the “most evident of truths.” Whether that’s so or not, it is…

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Obama’s “Compromise”: Deciding Who Gets Religious Freedom

by Matthew J. Franck February 12, 2013

After nearly a year, the Obama administration released, on February 1, its latest version of a “compromise” with the employers who object, on religious grounds, to the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that their health plans cover no-cost access…

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Faith Under Fire: “If Government Can Do This, What Can’t It Do?”

by Gail Finke February 4, 2013

Last week two Sidney, OH, produce companies became the latest of more than 40 states, Catholic dioceses, hospitals, Catholic and non-Catholic colleges and universities, and private companies to challenge the United States government over a Department of Health and Human…

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Insurers Raising Rates by Double Digits

by Keith Koffler January 8, 2013

It looks like Obamacare’s chickens are coming home to roost.
According to the New York Times, not normally known as a bastion of right-wing anti-Obama extremism, health insurers are slapping consumers with double digit percentage increases in rates:
Health insurance …

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Tom Monaghan Wins Against HHS Mandate

by Matthew Archbold January 7, 2013

A federal court in Michigan has reportedly ruled that the founder of Ave Maria University Tom Monaghan may exclude contraception from his employees’ insurance coverage in his personal property management company Domino’s Farms.
Still uncertain is whether Ave Maria, which…

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