A coalition of six states and the District of Columbia filed suit against the Trump administration in federal court last week, asserting that a new HHS billing requirement under Obamacare violates state sovereignty and creates unnecessary “barriers to abortion coverage.”
In December, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new rule requiring insurance plans within Obamacare’s state-based exchanges to issue separate bills to enrollees – one for the monthly premium and one for abortion coverage, if applicable.
The Trump administration said the new rule “aligns federal regulations with the statutory requirements” of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List in December said the new rule enforces the plain language of the law and blocks Obamacare’s “hidden abortion surcharge.”
But the six states and the District of Columbia say the new rule exceeds what is allowed under the text of the law. The six states are California, New York, Maine, Maryland, Oregon and Vermont. The lawsuit says the Trump administration “issued an onerous and unnecessary regulation designed to restrict women’s constitutionally protected reproductive rights by creating barriers to abortion coverage.”
“This new rule is just another Trump Administration attack on women and…
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