U.S. top court throws out Obamacare contraception ruling

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived religious objections by Catholic groups in Michigan and Tennessee to the Obamacare requirement for contraception coverage, throwing out a lower court decision favoring President Barack Obama’s administration.

The justices asked the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision that backed the Obama administration in light of the Supreme Court’s June 2014 ruling that allowed certain privately owned corporations to seek exemptions from the provision.

Obama’s healthcare law, known as Obamacare, requires employers to provide health insurance policies that cover preventive services for women including access to contraception and sterilization.

Various challengers, including family-owned companies and religious affiliated nonprofits that oppose abortion and sometimes the use of contraceptives, say the requirement infringes on their religious beliefs.

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One of those liberal snowflakes was all happy with her promise of ”free” contraceptives in CA under O’care.
Then she learned how much O’care would cost her every month.
Add to that her contraceptives would still be under her several thousand dollar/year deductible for all 12 months.
And her MD visits would, too.
Boy, did reality mug her hard!
Her Twitter feed was filled with expletives and all caps against O’care!
She just hadn’t read it before it was passed.
And she had mistakenly believed words out of Obama’s mouth.

How was it possible the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the Supreme Court’s June 2014 ruling that allowed certain privately owned corporations to seek exemptions from the provision?