The Supreme Court and the ACA contraception mandate: Déjà vu all over again

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s minority opinion in the 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case was prescient. She predicted that the majority opinion–favoring the right of closely held corporations (a corporation in which five or fewer shareholders own more than 50 percent equity of the organization) to opt out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s mandate to provide birth control coverage to employees on the basis of religious objection–would be a slippery slope.