Comments on: A Personal Account of Why Utah Needs to Change Laws Governing Health Care for Domestic Partners http://saintless.com/2008/12/01/a-personal-account-of-why-utah-needs-to-change-laws-governing-health-care-for-domestic-partners/ Because politics matter Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Nancy Polikoff http://saintless.com/2008/12/01/a-personal-account-of-why-utah-needs-to-change-laws-governing-health-care-for-domestic-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 Nancy Polikoff Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:45:09 +0000 http://saintless.com/?p=689#comment-1344 if you worked for Salt Lake City, you could cover your sister now. Their plan allows an unmarried person to cover another adult in the home and all the children of either of them. It's one of the recommendations in my book, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage. Check out the website: www.beyondstraightandgaymarriage.com. Unmarried different-sex and same-sex partners are also included in Salt Lake City. Of course universal health care can't come a moment too soon...for your sister or any of the rest of us! if you worked for Salt Lake City, you could cover your sister now. Their plan allows an unmarried person to cover another adult in the home and all the children of either of them. It’s one of the recommendations in my book, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage. Check out the website: http://www.beyondstraightandgaymarriage.com. Unmarried different-sex and same-sex partners are also included in Salt Lake City. Of course universal health care can’t come a moment too soon…for your sister or any of the rest of us!

]]> By: Sterkworks http://saintless.com/2008/12/01/a-personal-account-of-why-utah-needs-to-change-laws-governing-health-care-for-domestic-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1328 Sterkworks Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:20:54 +0000 http://saintless.com/?p=689#comment-1328 That totally sucks and is unfair. I was in a ten-year relationship, my partner had a seven-year-old and then I eventually had a baby. We each had to buy a separate "family" health care policy. And of course, neither employer offered a "two-person" plan. So we were each paying for plans that would cover up to any number of kids. At a minimum, we paid twice as much as our "straight" friend couples, and who knows how much more if averaged out over families that had eight or nine kids. Nice post. That totally sucks and is unfair. I was in a ten-year relationship, my partner had a seven-year-old and then I eventually had a baby. We each had to buy a separate “family” health care policy. And of course, neither employer offered a “two-person” plan. So we were each paying for plans that would cover up to any number of kids. At a minimum, we paid twice as much as our “straight” friend couples, and who knows how much more if averaged out over families that had eight or nine kids.

Nice post.

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