The Affordable Care Act requires that most health plans offer birth control to women.
Around the country, Catholic employers have been arguing in court that having anything to do with insurance coverage of contraceptives violates their freedom of religion.
But when the insurance companies themselves are Catholic, contraceptive coverage comes without a hitch.
Several Catholic insurance companies have been quietly arranging for contraceptive coverage for many years, often making it available to their policyholders through third-party providers, according to Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health Ne
