Admin's New Contraception Rules Not a Win-Win Solution

On May 4, 2017, President Trump promised to end a longstanding dispute between the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Catholic nuns, and the federal government. The dispute was over an accommodation of the nuns' religious objections to the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) requirements that most health plans provide cost-free contraception coverage. On October 6, the Trump administration basically ended that dispute—but it also did much more.