the aca mandated it. until then, their health insurance did include emergency contraception. now, it turns out that not only was hobby lobby covering plan b, right up until the time they decided to sue the obama administration, they were essentially meeking plan b. invested in manufacturers of the very contraception drugs they re now protesting according to mother jones. documents filed for 2012, the same year the green family filed their lawsuit show the lobby lobby 401(k) employee retirement plan held $73 million in mutual funds with investments in companies that produce emergency contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices and drugs commonly used in abortion. through matching contributions in 2012, hobby lobby contributed $3.8 million to its employee savings plan. you might be thinking the green family couldn t possibly know the funds that make up their employees retirement plans, what s in them. the law actually requires them
$3.8 million to its employee savings plan. you might be thinking the green family couldn t possibly know the funds that make up their employees retirement plans, what s in them. the law actually requires them to. the green family has taken this case to the highest court in the land precisely because they want to micromanage minute details about their employees lives including what drugs they can obtain with their insurance cards. they care about the details. they refrain from business activities forbidden by their religious beliefs and therefore avoid promoting alcohol, do not sell shot glasses, do not allow their trucks to backhaul beer. that costs them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in fore gone profits. we are, of course, talking about a billionaire company run by a religious fundamentalist, spread across much of the u.s. with stores in all 48 continuous states and still growing with more than 20,000 employees.
now i should add this was not a problem for hobby lobby until the aca mandated it. until then, their health insurance did include emergency contraception. now, it turns out that not only was hobby lobby covering plan b, right up until the time they decided to sue the obama administration, they were essentially meeking plan b. invested in manufacturers of the very contraception drugs they re now protesting according to mother jones. documents filed for 2012, the same year the green family filed their lawsuit show the lobby lobby 401(k) employee retirement plan held $73 million in mutual funds with investments in companies that produce emergency contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices and drugs commonly used in abortion. through matching contributions in 2012, hobby lobby contributed $3.8 million to its employee savings plan.