Under pressure from religious and conservative groups, the Obama
administration has offered another compromise on the issue of birth control
coverage within the Affordable Care Act. While exempting churches and some
religiously affiliated institutions, such as hospitals and universities,
from supplying the coverage, the new proposal calls for their employees to
receive stand-alone private insurance policies providing birth control
coverage at no cost. Insurance companies will foot the bill, but only the
naive can possibly think the cost won't find its way back to the institution
in the form of higher health premiums.
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