Obama’s proposed penal law regarding Catholic institutions buying birth control and morning-after pill insurance (now immaculately accommodated) has sharp teeth:
Employers who violate the HHS mandate, and who thereby fail to provide the coverage HHS deems necessary under Obamacare, incur an annual penalty of roughly $2000 per employee. More precisely, as I understand it, the base penalty is $2000 x (number of full-time employees minus 30), and the base is increased each year by the rate of growth in insurance premiums. So, for example, Belmont Abbey College (one of the two plaintiffs already challenging the HHS mandate), which has 200 full-time employees, is facing an annual base penalty of $340,000. Colorado Christian University (the other plaintiff) has 280 full-time employees and is facing an annual base penalty of $500,000.
For a school the size of Notre Dame? $10 million a year, a Becket Fund woman told Sean Hannity last night. (at 4:10 on tape) Whoa, million here, million there, soon you’re talking real money.
Blithe Spirit 