DENVER (AP) — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Friday barring penalties — for now — against a Colorado business whose health coverage for employees doesn’t cover birth control.
The Obama administration’s health care package requires group health plans to offer no-cost preventive care coverage to women for items including birth control. The Colorado-based heating and air conditioning business Hercules Industries Inc. is run by a family whose Roman Catholic beliefs condemn contraception, but the company doesn’t qualify as a religious employer exempt from providing the coverage. Under the legislation, Hercules would soon have to offer it.
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