Anthem Extends Domestic Partnership Insurance to Small Business
| By Michael Ditto - Sep 8th, 2007 at 1:22 pm EDT |
| Also listed in: COEqual | Denver County | GLBT Progressives | Jefferson County |
One of the ways that gay and lesbian families continue to be discriminated against is health insurance. Many of the large insurers offer employees of large corporations the ability to insure their domestic partners, but small businesses have been unable to offer domestic partner coverage--until now.
Anthem, Colorado's Blue Cross affiliate, is erasing that bit of discrimination from its small business policies.
Take a minute to write Anthem to thank them for taking an important step for equality. As every average American knows, health care is the single biggest pocketbook issue that we face. It's doubly hard for gay and lesbian people who face institutional discrimination in nearly every facet of life.
Anthem just made it a little easier. If you are a small business owner, call Anthem and get set up with them so that you can offer health insurance parity to all of your employees. If you are an employee at a small business, your boss now has no excuse not to offer health insurance parity to you and your coworkers.
Anthem, Colorado's Blue Cross affiliate, is erasing that bit of discrimination from its small business policies.
Take a minute to write Anthem to thank them for taking an important step for equality. As every average American knows, health care is the single biggest pocketbook issue that we face. It's doubly hard for gay and lesbian people who face institutional discrimination in nearly every facet of life.
Anthem just made it a little easier. If you are a small business owner, call Anthem and get set up with them so that you can offer health insurance parity to all of your employees. If you are an employee at a small business, your boss now has no excuse not to offer health insurance parity to you and your coworkers.
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As a small business person, I am struggling to keep health insurance coverage for my employees in the face of ever rising costs. Whether they are straight, gay, blue, green or white, unless we fundamentally change the financing of our health care system, my employees will not have coverage because I simply will not be able to afford it.
Sorry, I cannot thank Anthem for a public relations bandaide.
Does it make you feel all warm inside to denigrate a small step on the path to equality that many of us have been fighting for all our adult lives? Why don't you tell us the name of your small business so we know where not to shop.