Don’t like plus-one health benefits? Try minus-one!
In a jaw-dropping demonstration of what happens when institutions value their exclusive notion of marriage over everything else including health care, Catholic Charities of Washington, DC has announced that
Effective tomorrow, its employees will no longer be able to add a spouse to employee health benefit coverage. Spouses who are currently covered will continue to be covered.
Thanks to Professor Nancy Polikoff for bringing this to our attention, and for slamming it as unnecessary as well as cruel.
From an advocacy perspective, maybe there’s a silver lining: if more employers drop benefits for spouses and partners, there will be more couples throwing their political support behind single payer health coverage.
