OK's Doak Wants to Challenge FIO Constitutionality, Pass Religious Liberties in Healthcare Resolution

Doak has also drafted a resolution that the NAIC not support any legislative action that would deny citizens constitutionally protected religious rights in healthcare, a nod toward the contraception  insurance coverage debate in Congress and in the presidential election now sparked by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule. 

He plans to introduce it at the NAIC plenary, sources say, but it is unlikely that the NAIC will be entering this debate at this point. 

Doak had expressed his strong disapproval of the US Senate voting 51 – 49 to kill the Blunt Amendment which would have allowedrights religious organizations to deny soem health isnruance coverage on the basis of conscience.

The Blunt Amendment, authored by Roy Blunt, R-Mo., was designed to combat the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) mandate which requires all health insurers to cover birth control for employees, even when the organization is religiously affiliated and opposed to birth control.

"ObamaCare is all about telling everyone what they have to do – from patient, to employer, to provider, and now its crossing over and infringing on our religious liberties," Doak said.