A federal judge temporarily blocked the government from putting into effect new rules that would expand the exemption to the federal contraceptive mandate to the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious employers.
Judges block expansion of religious exemptions to HHS mandate
HHS urged to reissue rules to enforce required notice on abortion coverage
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must issue new regulations to enforce a requirement that consumers be notified if a subsidized health plan offered under the Affordable Care Act covers elective abortion and informed they must pay an extra amount for the plan’s abortion coverage.
Health care law: uncertain outcome after multiple diagnoses
On Oct. 20, there had still been no word on when the bill — which also aims to provide states flexibility to skirt some requirements of the health care law — might come to the Senate floor for a vote.
Universal health care? It may be time
Catholic social teaching offers several points to guide us in crafting a just health care system.
USCCB president urges Trump to quickly act to ease contraceptive mandate
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called on President Donald Trump to ease the “onerous” contraceptive mandate of the Department of Health and Human Services under the Affordable Care Act because it violates religious freedom.
After repeal fails, ‘task remains’ to reform health care, says bishop
The nation’s system under the Affordable Care Act “is not financially sustainable” and “lacks full Hyde protections and conscience rights.” It also “is inaccessible to many immigrants,” said Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.
Getting a health care bill through Congress fraught with difficulties
When the vice president has to cast a vote to break a tie in the Senate on whether to debate U.S. health care policy, let alone revise it — as Mike Pence did July 25 — it is obvious that passing legislation to repeal, and/or replace, and/or reform the Affordable Care Act is going to be a heavy lift in Congress.
U.S. bishop urges Senate to remedy health care after vote to proceed
After the Senate voted July 25 to proceed with the health care debate, Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, urged senators of both parties to “work together to advance changes that serve the common good.”