Domestic partner benefits

whitepants

PJ_Lukin wrote:

As some may recall, I am an elected county legislator where I live. I am a Democrat and we just took over our Legislature this year from a 25 year Republican reign. We voted on Wednesday night to grant Domestic Partner health care benefits. It is one of the proudest moments of my 1 year career.

*claps*

Congratulations! I'm proud of you too!

norm

know1 wrote:

I don't think their lobbyists are much of the problem.

Oh yes they are. We won't have reform until Congress stops sucking at the pharm's tit.

1970RR

know1 wrote:

Well, I didn't really express it the way I want, but I really believe that Health Insurance is the biggest problem with high healthcare and insurance costs. It's spiraled out of control because nobody has to actually directly pay for healthcare anymore. Instead, the insurance companies set the costs and set the rates for insurance.

I truly believe that if people were to just pay directly for most healthcare needs and only have a sort of health insurance that only covers catastrophic type events, that healthcare costs and insurance costs would come way down.

I agree that this is a good way to go. I believe the "health savings accounts" are set up to work this way, but I think you would need more universal participation to see any kind of real change to the system.

know1

1970RR wrote:

I agree that this is a good way to go. I believe the "health savings accounts" are set up to work this way, but I think you would need more universal participation to see any kind of real change to the system.

Agreed!