Foreword
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is back before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2012, the Court upheld the constitutionality of the law’s requirement that most Americans have health insurance or pay a tax and struck down a provision requiring States to expand Medicaid coverage for the poor or lose other Federal funds. Now, the Court is reviewing whether the law’s requirement that most health insurance plans provide contraceptive coverage with no out-of-pocket costs runs afoul of existing Federal law and the constitutional right to freedom of religion. The contraceptive mandate, as it is often called, has been…
