You guys who are crying foul on this are forgetting one important fact. Most of the responsibility and thereby out-of-pocket-cost (approx 70% more than for men) for contraception is shouldered by women. There are only two choices for men: condoms and vasectomy and since most of you guys have misplaced homophobic "issues" with vasectomy there's really only one choice....and an extremely cheap one at that relative to female methods of contraception.
Since this means that denial of contraceptive health care coverage primarily impacts women, the plaintifs have a valid claim via Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. This sums it up pretty well:
Title VII prohibits employer policies that discriminate against women intentionally or explicitly. In the hiring context, explicit sex-based discrimination can be justified only if the employer demonstrates that gender is a "bona fide occupational qualification," which requires the employer to show that "the essence of the business operation would be undermined" by hiring either women or men. 61 Title VII also prohibits employer policies that are neutral in form but discriminatory in effect. To establish a prima facie disparate impact claim, a plaintiff must show that the challenged employment practices "in fact fall more harshly on one group than another, without justification." 62
Many reasons support the claim that excluding contraceptives from otherwise comprehensive coverage for physician services and prescription drugs disproportionately impacts women. The current state of technology permits prescription contraceptives only for women. Thus, when an employer covers all prescription drugs except for contraception, the discrimination against women is explicit. However, because this characterization is based on technological limitations, treating the exclusion of coverage for prescription contraceptives as a facially neutral policy that has a discriminatory impact upon women seems more appropriate.
Bitch all you want, but it's contraception or welfare babies. Which would you rather pay for?