https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Affordable Care Act en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/26/christian-health-sharing-ministries-arent-all-corrupt-heres-why-they-are-problem In my previous column here at RD , I used historical retrospective and my personal memories of the 1990s era Christian opposition to “Hillarycare” to contextualize the colossal failure of Sharity, a major Christian health sharing ministry (CHSM) that’s currently… Tue, 26 Apr 2022 04:41:19 EDT Chrissy Stroop 0d949d82-ef1a-4306-9c98-beb7b280fdcd https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/21/evangelical-healthcare-sharing-plan-catastrophically-fails-why-did-so-many-join-first Remember the 1990s ? The inexplicable popularity of fluorescent fanny packs? The innocent thrill of getting AOL and connecting to the world wide web for the first time? Everyone talking about how Bill Clinton was probably the Antichrist who would… Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:34:24 EDT Chrissy Stroop 3a5201a0-d8a5-48d7-9668-f79b3addd2ff https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/13/scotus-refusal-again-favors-religious-claims-time-liberals-favor An anti-gay breakaway group has to return a half a billion dollars worth of property to the Episcopal Church. Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:53:21 EDT Patrick Hornbeck b6c6994e-e115-4300-92f1-97bf224ae0b0 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/07/25/catholic-nuns-show-bishops-how-its-done-obamacare In the end, it would be a fitting sort of justice if it were the Catholic nuns who saved the Affordable Care Act. After all, it was only through the efforts of Sister Nancy Keehan of the Catholic Health Association… Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:00:11 EDT Patricia Miller 1365bec1-e6b6-4406-9001-80cad0e99149 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/06/29/gop-isnt-pro-life-after-all The GOP’s morally indefensible position on maternity care shows the hollowness of the party’s claim to be “pro-life.” It also shows a way forward on abortion for Democrats. Texas Rep. Peter Olson this week became the latest Republican to assert… Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:32:35 EDT Patricia Miller 807cebba-f2e2-4f34-8131-c9c0fd047d57 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/06/06/can-i-get-some-birth-control-pills-slushie-unpacking-contraceptive-mandate-rollback A roundtable discussion with RD’s Sunnivie Brydum, Patricia Miller, and Anita Little. Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:22:27 EDT Sunnivie Brydum 92ec58ea-4813-4f68-964d-757b800faacf https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/04/why-trumps-religious-liberty-order-whole-lot-nothing This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the broad license to discriminate against LGBT people that many activists feared. Instead, it’s a vague, largely symbolic gesture that seems intended to appease the… Thu, 04 May 2017 06:47:36 EDT Sunnivie Brydum 081ec1d1-7c23-4ddd-92a8-871317920a62 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/04/04/how-politics-1890s-explain-gops-health-care-woes Amid news that the GOP is trying once again to restart negotiations over their failed ObamaCare “repeal and replace” measure, it’s worth noting that the party’s problems with health care go beyond schisms within the party and Trump’s incompetence. They… Tue, 04 Apr 2017 04:04:38 EDT Patricia Miller 5abd24a6-6df6-4ed8-a53a-61e4cd7133b3 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/15/how-catholic-church-broke-health-insurance-it-advocated It was one of the more remarkable moments in the saga of the “repeal/replace” of the Affordable Care Act. When Democratic Congressman Mike Doyle asked his Energy and Commerce Committee colleague, Republican Congressman John Shimkus, exactly what mandate in the… Wed, 15 Mar 2017 02:46:08 EDT Patricia Miller 412133c7-a848-4774-878c-cb47812c9972 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/10/catholic-apocalypse-cometh How “religious liberty” may have helped swing the election. Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:48:08 EST Patricia Miller bb1ac846-354a-421f-8c0e-85d7a912d1a1 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/19/latest-zubik-v-burwell-religious-orgs-propose-compromise-they-themselves-would-oppose With headlines like ” 53 Percent Say Making Nuns Participate in Obamacare Birth Control Mandate is Unfair,” the conservative Christian press has found its angle on Zubik v. Burwell. For the rest of us, here’s a way through the legal… Tue, 19 Apr 2016 02:08:06 EDT Elizabeth Platt c8b6d8db-c8ff-49e6-bed4-09b20d6bc94e https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/08/how-die-america-conversation-ann-neumann Nobody likes to talk about death. And when we do talk about it, we romanticize it, or veil it in mystery. “The way we talk about dying and the way we die are two very different things,” writes journalist Ann… Tue, 08 Mar 2016 07:52:57 EST Ellie Faustino 24a84479-b201-45fc-8b54-2119083145d0 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/05/year-reproductive-justice-2015-summary The words and deeds of those in the U.S. who oppose abortion have perhaps never been as fevered or their consequences as severe as they were in 2015. At the beginning of the year, the new Congress wasted no time… Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:41:52 EST Harry F. Knox 2b4cfd33-cf64-4d25-b172-03eac60699d1 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/07/religious-exceptions-not-so-exceptional-according-new-study One of the assumptions behind those seeking a religious exception to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act—as well as behind religious exceptions in general—is that they are more or less exceptional. By that I mean that they are… Mon, 07 Dec 2015 02:53:21 EST Patricia Miller e4950a18-4423-4186-acbc-b157a1a27c50 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/03/wheatons-decision-end-student-insurance-religious-liberty-ruse Wheaton College grabbed headlines last week for its decision to end student health insurance rather than comply with the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act. And by comply, I mean: tell the government that it refuses to provide contraception… Mon, 03 Aug 2015 02:13:55 EDT Patricia Miller e0cd8d1b-9c9a-433e-b3cb-60e739e6d2b6 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/16/how-little-sisters-won-losing-religious-liberty-case Anyone scanning the headlines about the federal appeals court’s rejection of the Little Sisters of the Poor’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate could be forgiven for thinking that the Little Sisters lost: Denver’s Little Sisters of the… Thu, 16 Jul 2015 02:51:03 EDT Patricia Miller c7dfd9f7-c96e-4563-b2b1-360d13abad1c https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/20/appeals-court-eviscerates-notre-dames-objections-contraception-accommodation The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has again rejected Notre Dame’s complaint that the accommodation to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate is a “substantial burden” on its religious liberty and denied its request for an injuction. The Seventh… Wed, 20 May 2015 12:12:03 EDT Patricia Miller bed7427a-6420-4b4b-872f-3d090bc87fd3 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/08/nightly-news-turns-bishops-about-contraception-more-often-docs The big nightly network news shows are more likely to turn to the Catholic hierarchy as a source for stories about contraception controversies than doctors, according to a new study. Dr. Jen Gunter reports on her blog about the study… Fri, 08 May 2015 11:43:50 EDT Patricia Miller 48127b58-6679-4169-8087-9ba993bd30f3 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/31/3-religious-exemption-cases-look-2015 We already know that 2014 was a big year for religious exemption cases, from the gravely serious to the immensely trivial. But what will 2015 have in store? If I were a prophet I could, of course, predict the future… Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:00:33 EST Kara Loewentheil ce8df1fa-ed43-4316-a211-56aa1b132e22 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/01/wapo-oped-pope-francis-and-koch-bros-love-and-serve-poor-together In case you were worried that the Koch Brothers were just money-grubbing industrialists hell-bent on excavating the ever-growing income gap between the one percent and everyone else, it turns out you couldn’t be more wrong. They are, in fact, practically… Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:59:11 EST Patricia Miller 669e53ab-6f10-45e1-bce5-ca5749398356 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/11/17/circuit-court-rejects-priests-life-contraception-challenge As if further proof were required that challenges to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act are largely political stunts designed to push the “religious freedom” narrative, Priests for Life head Father Frank Pavone is now threatening to “defy”… Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:38:22 EST Patricia Miller 719d39a8-d9b6-43ff-bd42-7c18399a8aab https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/29/catholic-college-wont-reveal-insurer-yet-another-contraception-accommodation-works In a twist that shows just how absurd the entire debate over “religious freedom” and the Affordable Care Act has become — and the futility of trying to find any compromise to satisfy religious conservatives — a federal judge has… Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:44:28 EDT Patricia Miller 0223eeea-3e6d-4ba6-9097-528f5dcdb648 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/07/28/dubious-theology-behind-catholic-opposition-contraception-compromise As my colleague Sarah Posner recently reported, it looks increasingly likely that several of the Catholic plaintiffs who are objecting to the use of Form 700 to notify their insurance carriers of their intent to opt-out of the ObamaCare contraception… Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:26:58 EDT Patricia Miller f2555a93-21e0-41b3-91f2-c6cb0a03ab92 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/07/24/obamas-next-contraception-coverage-accommodation-wont-satisfy-litigants The Obama administration plans to tweak its accommodation under the Affordable Care Act for religious non-profits who object to providing their employees with health insurance that covers contraceptives with no co-pay. The current accommodation, being challenged by Wheaton College and… Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:53:58 EDT Sarah Posner f69211fa-bd30-4404-801e-58dc76bf48a0 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/03/14/catholic-nuns-back-obamacare-contraception-access “It isn’t faith and freedom when reproductive autonomy isn’t extended by the Catholic Church to women.” Fri, 14 Mar 2014 01:12:17 EDT Patricia Miller 09df3816-dc27-43ce-9f47-d74e1da03b91