Federal Judge Blocks ACA Contraceptive Coverage Rollback

By Ariel Cohen / January 14, 2019 at 7:28 PM
A Pennsylvania district court judge on Monday (Jan. 14) issued a nationwide injunction blocking the implementation of two Trump administration rules that would loosen the Affordable Care Act’s requirements that employers cover contraceptive services by allowing those employers to claim moral or religious exemptions. Just a day earlier (Jan. 13), a federal court in California issued a similar injunction but limited it to 13 plaintiff states. Without the injunction, the Trump administration rule was scheduled to go into effect on...


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