Simple, in the US and other nations, medical billing is detailed enough to specify the reason for any treatment.
I wonder if this issue was addressed in this mandate at all and if Catholic organization employees would be covered for birth control pills in such capacities.
There are some Catholic institutions who have ignored or stretched the Church's interpretation of what is allowable birth control. But the mandate didn't make any distinction between birth control used for medical reasons besides contraception and that used strictly for contraception, which is part of the reason that many (not all) Church leaders hit the roof. HHS did single out contraception as being the chief reason for the mandate in the first place, which was like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
Since the PPACA was upheld by the SC the mandate was upheld as well. There are separate cases against the mandate which are winding their way through the courts. In one case a Denver company which was owned by Catholics tried to argue that it shouldn't have to comply. This argument was rejected as the company is a HVAC firm, hardly a religious organization. The second case is by the Church affiliated organizations. I don't know where that is.
It is also important to point out that the overwhelming majority of US companies and private insurance plans already covered birth control. The argument is over the removal of the co-pay-which effectively means people who don't use it pay for those who do- and forcing those few plans who didn't cover it to do so.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
