New Senate bill would make HHS bureaucrats more powerful than federal law

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Casey Mattox regarding Senate Bill 2578, a bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) that would force all health plans to comply with any rule from the Department of Health and Human Services, overriding any federal law that conflicts with what HHS demands:

“No new law should make an HHS bureaucrat more powerful than federal law itself. Senate Bill 2578 should be called the ‘Late-Term Abortion and Assisted Suicide Coercion Act of 2014’ because it allows any whim of HHS to trump any federal law or rule, including those that protect Americans from being forced to provide abortion or assisted suicide coverage as part of a health plan. The bill clearly states that any HHS regulation requiring something in a health plan must be followed regardless of what any other federal law says. That’s an exceedingly dangerous power grab that no American should support.”