Under the new law, organizations that were previously considered churches, and exempt from ERISA and various sections of the Internal Revenue Code, are now being asked to comply with objectionably coverage requirements. The administration both on its own and through HHS has basically recharacterized what it means to be a "church" on the ERISA/IRC sense of the word, and in a particularly narrow way, such that prior church entities are no longer considered churches, and they are therefore subject to this law. Those entities have a right to object, and they also have a basis for their argument. |
