Forty-three groups are challenging the Obama administration’s rule that employees receive health insurance coverage for contraception.

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Catholics File Suits on Contraceptive Coverage

To keep his daughter on his health insurance.

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Scott Brown Uses Part of Obamacare

Since audio recordings of last week’s health-care arguments before the Supreme Court were released, the performance of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has been criticized. But factors such as the number of times a lawyer is interrupted or hesitates while arguing in our nation’s highest court are not a sound basis for judging the “ Worst Week in Washington ” — or even for guessing how the court will ultimately rule. Those who understand the challenges of Supreme Court argument — people who have argued before the court — have not criticized Verrilli’s performance. It is instructive to look closely at some rules of this particular game. Read full article > >

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Randy E. Barnett, a Georgetown law professor, has argued long and loud that the requirement to buy health insurance is unconstitutional.

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The Obama administration has directed a health insurance company to cover the same-sex spouse of a federal employee. Gay rights advocates say they believe this is the first time such coverage has been allowed. Read full article > >

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White House: Same-sex spouse may get health-care coverage

WHILE POLICY considerations will infuse the Supreme Court arguments Tuesday about the health-care mandate, the session will focus on this legal question: Does the Constitution give Congress the power to order all individuals above a certain income level to buy health insurance? This is the topic of the Supreme Court’s second of three days of consideration of the health-care reform act. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Why the individual mandate holds the key to health-care reform

The Supreme Court opened its historic review of the national health-care overhaul Monday with an indication that it will be able to decide the constitutional question of whether Congress exceeded its powers despite arguments that the challenge was brought too soon. Read full article > >

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Supreme Court begins review of health-care law

1 . The “individual mandate” forces everyone to buy health insurance. The law states that, beginning in 2014, individuals must ensure that they and their dependents are covered by health insurance. Taxpayers who do not meet this requirement will have to pay a penalty that the law calls a “shared responsibility payment.” It begins at $95 for the first year and never exceeds 2 1 / 2 percent of anyone’s annual taxable income. Read full article > >

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Five myths about the health-care law

Expect demonstrators to brandish placards reading “Hands off my health care!” and demanding a repeal of the 2010 health-care law. Expect doctors in white lab coats and patients who have suffered at the hands of insurance companies to hold news conferences lauding the law’s consumer protections and pleading for its preservation. Read full article > >

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Health-care law activists to reach for broad political targets at Supreme Court hearings

The Obama administration Friday fleshed out additional details of how it proposes to deal with religious employers that object to the administration’s birth control health insurance coverage rule — seeking to close the chapter on an issue that continues to roil the president’s relationship with religious communities. Read full article > >

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White House fleshes out exemptions to birth control rule

The Fredericksburg woman divorcing her husband laid out all the messy details, including the most secret of them all. Her husband, she wrote in now-sealed court documents, is a covert operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. His CIA job, she said, poisoned their five-year-old marriage. Read full article > >

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CIA divorces: The secrecy when spies split

Score another victory for human rights. Last week, a federal district court judge in San Francisco ruled in favor of granting health insurance benefits to the same-sex spouse of a federal employee. Judge Jeffrey S. White, who was nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush, ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) “unconstitutionally discriminates against same-sex married couples.” Read full article > >

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Judge finds DOMA discriminatory

1 . Medicare is inefficient and fails to control costs. The trustees of Medicare last year projected that the program’s share of gross domestic product would increase from the current 3.7 percent to about 5 percent in 2030 and nearly 6 percent by 2050. But since Medicare’s inception in 1965, its spending growth, on a per-person basis, has stayed consistent with or lower than the increase in private health insurance premiums. Read full article > >

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THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION appears to have found an elegant way out of its contraceptive problem — or, perhaps more to the point, to the political problem created by its approach to contraceptive coverage. As we wrote after the previous policy was announced last month, increased access to contraception is important; requiring contraception as part of the standard health insurance package, without deductibles or co-payments, makes sense. But given the strong objections of the Catholic Church to contraception, it also makes sense to exempt religious employers from having to spend their own money on a service that violates their moral views. The administration recognized the need for such a carve-out, but it erred in drawing it too narrowly, to cover churches but not Catholic hospitals, charities and other such religiously affiliated institutions. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: President Obama’s win-win reversal on contraception

Facing criticism from religious-affiliated institutions, the Obama administration promised on Tuesday to explore ways to make a new health insurance requirement more flexible.

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Obama Addresses Ire on Health Insurance Contraception Rule