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no, that is a dishonest analysisPlease read the anaylsis in the OP's linked article -- in full. That answers your question. As I pointed out to Newby, some laws are more obscure than others.
please point out exactly where this is in the proposed legislation
If you have not read the bill, how do you know the analysis is dishonest? What is your beef with the National Women's Law Center?
Go to the Op, Divey, and click on the linked article. There is a hotlink there to the text of the bill. Look for the phrase "conscience rights". This is the center's analysis, based on their reading of the bill and an interview with the Committee's counsel:
The Affordable Care Act included, as part of the compromise on abortion, a provision that made clear that nothing in the health care law would preempt state laws on abortion. H.R. 358 expands this provision, preventing the new health care law from preempting any state law - now or in the future - that has to do with "conscience rights." The Energy and Commerce Committee counsel admitted today that this provision goes WAY beyond abortion. In fact, it gives states carte blanche to undo, in the name of conscience, almost any federal requirement in the Affordable Care Act.
This loophole means that, under H.R. 358, a state could exempt any insurance plan from a requirement under the Affordable Care Act that insurance plans cover birth control or any other essential health benefits if complying is against its - the health insurance plan's -- "moral convictions."
If you continue to disagree, fine...but I'd like to hear a substantive reply, please.
How do you get that the state will have the power to unilaterally prohibit birth control from the part you bolded? Even according to your source, the insurance companies have to request the exemption for the state to even be able to provide it. What are flipping out about? Do you really think every single insurer in a state will request an exemption? Hell, if you were the only insurance provider to not request an exemption you'd probably get a flood of business and that alone would ensure insurance providers wouldn't opt out.