Tip Tuesday! High Court narrows PPACA contraceptive mandate

By Greg Stohr

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ruling that closely held companies can claim a religious exemption from the requirement that they offer birth-control coverage in their worker health plans.

Voting 5-4, the justices today sided with family-run businesses, including the craft-store chain Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., that say they regard some forms of contraception as immoral.

The ruling carves a hole in Obama’s biggest legislative accomplishment, the 2010 health-care law that the Supreme Court upheld two years ago.

Click here to continue reading.