Consumer Advocate: HHS Should Extend 'Accommodation' To For-Profit Companies

HHS in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court's contraceptive coverage decision should extend the “accommodation” it granted for religious non-profit organizations to for-profit companies because it's the only realistic short-term solution to mitigate the ruling's consequences, the head of consumer group National Health Law Program tells Inside Health Policy . In its decision to scale back the ACA's contraception coverage requirement, the Supreme Court's conservative wing suggested that HHS' accommodation that lets some religious non-profit organizations avoid directly providing...