Federal District Court Rules Employers Can Refuse to Purchase Health Insurance That Covers PrEP

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Federal district court rules employers can refuse to purchase health insurance that covers PrEP.

medications taken to prevent infection with HIV. That means HHS can't require thatplans sold in the U.S. cover PrEP, as it has since 2020, following a recommendation from its medical experts. That rule has now been placed under what may become a permanent injunction.

Why would the plaintiffs want to do this? Because PrEP encourages young men to sodomy, of course! Apparently, allowing people to avoid death from terrible plagues is too big a price to pay for maintaining the anti-sex and especially anti-LGBTQ moral code. So it's a violation of these conservative plaintiffs' sincerely held religious beliefs.cases that trammeled the Affordable Care Act's guarantee of contraception coverage.

What's really under fire is HHS' power to mandate coverage of preventive care treatments that are proven to save lives, including ones that protect against illnesses one can acquire through sex. But that's not a policy fight that's going to be won with the Biden White House, so instead we get religious objections to ...

The defendants argued that since Hotze et al. are making empirical claims – more young men will have sinful boysex if they have access to PrEP – they should have to prove them up to counter the evidence on the other side that led to the rule being enacted.

 

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where are laws protecting sincerely held secular beliefs? Do they not count?

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