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	<title>Unmarried Blog &#187; health care</title>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t like plus-one health benefits? Try minus-one!</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/03/04/dont-like-plus-one-health-benefits-try-minus-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital rights victory in New York</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/26/victory-for-hospital-rights-in-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over 17 years, New York has struggled to attain medical decision making rights for its patients. Not anymore! Just two days ago, New York voted YES on the Family Health Care Decisions Act! It&#8217;s been a long time coming!
The FHCDA helps protect people who don&#8217;t document their wishes. It gives family members and friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different-sex domestic partners pay more at Syracuse U.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year we noted Virginia&#8217;s offer to let state employees share benefits with household members regardless of relationship, but charge them full price while deeply subsidizing benefits for spouses.  Syracuse University now joins that unwelcome trend.
For several years, AtMP members and fellow Syracuse graduate students tried to persuade the University to provide inclusive domestic partner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring &#8220;marriage penalties&#8221; in health reform</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/01/27/exploring-marriage-penalties-in-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/01/27/exploring-marriage-penalties-in-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though it didn&#8217;t get much major media attention, several small and so-called conservative outlets have been complaining that the health reform bills moving (or not) through Congress are unfair to married people.  AtMP tracks news about &#8220;marriage penalties&#8221; for two reasons: first, we oppose and look for ways to solve all forms of marital status [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News roundup for the new year</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/01/08/news-roundup-for-the-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several AtMP members around the county used their winter holidays to scour the news for interesting stories about marriage and its alternatives.  Here are just a few of the many worth talking about:
Ann was the first to spot the efforts of different-sex unmarried couples to be included in domestic partner coverage being offered to employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Possible plus-one benefits for VA state workers</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/12/11/possible-plus-one-benefits-for-va-state-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/12/11/possible-plus-one-benefits-for-va-state-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia&#8217;s Department of Human Resource  Management is considering a regulation that would create plus-one health insurance for state employees.  Sounds very exciting, but there&#8217;s a catch.  Benefits for employees&#8217; spouses would be paid for by the state, but employees who share their benefits with Other Qualifying Adults would have to pay the entire premium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two steps forward, one back for domestic partners</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/11/21/two-steps-forward-one-back-for-domestic-partners/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/11/21/two-steps-forward-one-back-for-domestic-partners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in Washington DC you probably know this already, but it&#8217;s worth celebrating the fact that the DC Council decided not to shut down its domestic partnership registry.  Congratulations and thank you to all the AtMP members who emailed the Council, and especially to Board Chair Meaghan Lamarre for testifying at the Council [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think tank echoes AtMP&#8217;s health reform proposals</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/11/19/think-tank-echos-atmps-health-reform-proposals/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/11/19/think-tank-echos-atmps-health-reform-proposals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year AtMP really stepped up its efforts to raise awareness about the impact of marital status on  access to health care.  For example, we submitted comments to the Senate Finance Committee in  May, and started distributing fact sheets to a variety of  health care reform advocates in  July.   It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MVP and MIP on DP benefits for federal employees.</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/10/26/mvp-and-mip-on-dp-benefits-for-federal-employees/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/10/26/mvp-and-mip-on-dp-benefits-for-federal-employees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://unmarried.org/blog/?p=383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held its hearing on the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act. In comparison to the House hearing held this summer, the Q &#38; A took wonderfully positive steps in the direction AtMP advocates: let every federal employee share employment benefits with one non-dependent adult, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad news on hospital rights</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/09/30/bad-news-on-hospital-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we got terribly disappointing news from Lambda Legal: a FL court has dismissed the potentially ground-breaking case which we hoped would have created a legal basis for the widespread assumption that hospital patients have a right to visitation.
The court ruled that the hospital has neither an obligation to allow their patients&#8217; visitors nor any [...]]]></description>
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