Obama is finalizing a rule that will require insurance to cover contraception for employees of most employers.

The policy as originally proposed was better, but this is pretty good.

The issue of "religious" employers would not exist if not for the misguided US policy of associating health care with employment. This causes several problems:

• It gives companies an incentive to replace US workers with foreign workers or machines, so as to reduce what they pay for their employees' health care.
• It gives companies an incentive to use part-time workers who are not entitled to health coverage. Walmart does this.

• It means unemployed people often have no health care. (Though Obama's health care law may reduce this problem.)
• It gives religious employers an excuse to meddle with the health care of their employees.

We should tax companies based on their income, and use the money to provide health care for all Americans whether employed or not.