--- title: ACA Can't Force Employer Health Plan to Cover Birth Control description: MI judge decides ACA can't force employer-sponsored healthcare to cover birth control --- # ACA Can't Force Employer Health Plan to Cover Birth Control - Home - [Employee Benefit News for School, City and County Employers](https://blog.nisbenefits.com) - ACA Can't Force Employer Health Plan to Cover Birth Control [ Valerie Ortiz ](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/author/valerie-ortiz) 03/19/2013 [ Legislative News](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/topic/aca-other-legislative-news) [0 Comments ](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/mi-judge-decides-aca-can-t-force-employer-sponsored-healthcare-to-cover-birth-control#postComment) 1 Minutes On Thursday, a Michigan judge blocked a federal health reform mandate that would require employer-sponsored healthcare to cover contraception, including birth control and morning after pills. In December, Tom Monaghan and Domino's Farm Corp., a property management company, sued the government, stating compliance with the requirement to offer employee birth control coverage is against his religious [beliefs as a](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-14/michigan-judge-blocks-health-care-birth-control-mandate.html) Roman Catholic, according to Bloomberg. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff granted Monaghan's case a preliminary injunction against the requirement, stating, "It is in the best interest of the public that Monaghan not be compelled to act in conflict [with his religious](http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/judge-feds-cant-make-dominos-founder-tom-monaghan-offer-workers-contraceptive-coverage/2013/03/14/a55710e4-8d1a-11e2-adca-74ab31da3399_story.html) beliefs," The Associated Press reports. The company employs 45 full-time and 44 part-time workers. Monaghan claims he would have had to pay $200,000 each year to abide by the law, which employers have until August 1 to comply with. The Department of Health and Human Services declined to comment on Thursday, but in a statement in December, said the new healthcare laws are aimed at "two compelling government interests: improving the health of women and children, and equalizing the provision of preventive care for women and men so that women who choose to can be a part of the workforce on an equal playing field with men." 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