The House is about to socialize your medicine, and your life.

Originally Posted by Danzig

they don't have the same benefits. but how can you turn away an emergency, regardless of who they are? they're still a human being-you can't just let them lay outside the door, can you?

Yes.

[brianwspencer]

At least this would be great news to fix a huge source of inequality that I've spoken about here on several occasions.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/11/hea...-for-gays.html

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

At least this would be great news to fix a huge source of inequality that I've spoken about here on several occasions.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/11/hea...-for-gays.html

sorry I cant read that.. my work blocks anything that has LGBT even mentioned in it.. Though you can go to any "christian family anti gay" website you want.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

sorry I cant read that.. my work blocks anything that has LGBT even mentioned in it.. Though you can go to any "christian family anti gay" website you want.

It would remove the tax inequity where domestic partner benefit premiums paid by your employer are treated as taxable income, making it unaffordable for most couples to get insurance for one another.

Ie, if the domestic partner premium is $400/mo, and you pay $75 for it and your company pays the $325, that is taxable income for you and you have to pay income taxes on it -- so that $75 premium becomes essentially a $150 premium which it wouldn't do if your spouse was of the opposite sex getting the same benefits.