Health insurance reform to queers: fuck you (redux)

[solarbird]

Same-sex couples get to pay extra taxes:

...employer-provided health benefits offered to domestic partners are counted as taxable income if the partner is not considered a dependent (the amount of the tax is based on the value of the partner’s coverage paid by the employer). Coverage extended to opposite-sex spouses, however, is not subject to the additional tax.

Well, golly! Thanks and fuck you, too.

Comments

[avram]

Great. This'll bite my girlfriend, too.

[cow.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's...just amazing.

Fun thing I learned today: the French Canadian press refers to the US's DADT as "la loi du silence", which happens to be the same phrase they use for omertà. Just in case anyone might mistake the general opinion of said law!

[maellenkleth]

It rather sounds as if it were a logical outgrowth of DOMA. Doesn't go to excuse it, in my dyke-partnered eyes at least, but it does perhaps explain how and why that provision got in there.

So, pushy question from friends: "why haven't you started the clock running on emigration?". Either it's reasonably fixable down there [down here, at the moment], or it isn't, and if it isn't, a queer brain drain to more enlightened places is surely in the cards.

My two centons, FWIW.

[avram]

On second thought, no, it probably won't, since we actually pay for my health insurance; it's not just given to me by her employer.

[solarbird]

If there's an employer contribution, which there usually is, that'll get taxed. Your portion won't.