Rule overturned for employer-funded medical insurance covering HIV medicine

A judge overturned the rule that employer-funded medical insurance must cover medicine to control HIV.

Requiring employers to pay for employees' medical care gets the job done, but has bad side effects. For instance, it gives employers an incentive to replace workers with robots. And people who don't have an employer to fill this role get left out.

Instead, the state ought to pay directly for medical care, and raise income by taxing the rich. That would avoid all these problems, including the issue of whether the employer's religion should govern the employee's medical care.

However, there is no chance of passing the laws to do this unless we elect many more progressives to Congress, and in the mean time, this decision will be a setback for preventing further cases of HIV in the US.