Missouri Hosts a Rip Tide on Contraceptive Mandate
source: http://womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/120803/missouri-hosts-rip-tide-contraceptiv...
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Seven cents a day; about $26 a year.
That's how much it costs a company to pay for an employee's contraception benefits, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported in February.
But that low cost hardly means the battle for contraceptive coverage is won.
"It's not a safe place for women and health care," says Ruth Ehresman, a candidate in Missouri's Aug. 7 race for the House of State Representatives for the 78th District in St. Louis.
"I've worked as a health care advocate for six years to help pass the Affordable Care Act," says Ehresman. "Now the whole battle is being taken to a new level, which is one of the reasons why I'm particularly excited to win this office."
In June the Supreme Court upheld the basic constitutionality of health reform but since then the legal heat has moved to the states.
In the weeks leading up to Aug. 1, when the Affordable Care Act began requiring moequiring most insurance companies to cover contraceptive services, legal challenges swarmed around the country.
That's how much it costs a company to pay for an employee's contraception benefits, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported in February.
But that low cost hardly means the battle for contraceptive coverage is won.
"It's not a safe place for women and health care," says Ruth Ehresman, a candidate in Missouri's Aug. 7 race for the House of State Representatives for the 78th District in St. Louis.
"I've worked as a health care advocate for six years to help pass the Affordable Care Act," says Ehresman. "Now the whole battle is being taken to a new level, which is one of the reasons why I'm particularly excited to win this office."
In June the Supreme Court upheld the basic constitutionality of health reform but since then the legal heat has moved to the states.
In the weeks leading up to Aug. 1, when the Affordable Care Act began requiring moequiring most insurance companies to cover contraceptive services, legal challenges swarmed around the country.
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