Please help me understand the co-called controversy around the birth control compromise

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29. If they're sensible, they already pay for full health packages

Nicholas Kristof thought to ask someone:

So, does America’s national health policy really need to make a far-reaching exception for Catholic institutions when a majority of Catholics oppose that exception?

I wondered what other religiously affiliated organizations do in this situation. Christian Science traditionally opposed medical care. Does The Christian Science Monitor deny health insurance to employees?

“We offer a standard health insurance package,” John Yemma, the editor, told me.

That makes sense. After all, do we really want to make accommodations across the range of faith? What if organizations affiliated with Jehovah’s Witnesses insisted on health insurance that did not cover blood transfusions? What if ultraconservative Muslim or Jewish organizations objected to health care except at sex-segregated clinics?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/opinion/sunday/kristof-beyond-pelvic-politics.html

While Christian Science has, to my mind, wacky views on medicine, they own a newspaper, and they seem fine to allow the employees to use modern medical science. But the CSM comes across as a decent, independent newspaper, so I guess the owners (a CS society) are not dogmatic about what their business does.