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Originally Posted by fatherphil
i ask a question and you seem to freak out. and i'm difficult.
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I find you are unclear, not concise, do not respond to most points made to you, and ask odd, seemingly rhetorical and off topic questions. Yes, I find you difficult and frustrating. I would like to discuss this but you never seem to offer your opinion, or lay out an argument, or defend your position.
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if a company has to insure someone they didn't have to before (the gay spouse)
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Or hetero spouse if a hetero employee gets married or a child if a hetero couple has one.
Sure, but not unexpectedly or dramatically or bizarrely or anything.
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it cost me more to insure my spouse and myself, but not as much as it costs me to insure myself and my adult child who is not a dependent.
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You are allowed to cover undependant children? Wow, that's quite a benefit there. Anyway, if you choose to take on the extra expense what's that got to do with anybody else?
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i imagine the same applies to the gay couple who does not have the benifit of a company recognizing their civil union.
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Right, but you haven't explained how a gay man paying more to cover his spouse is any different than a straight man paying more to cover his spouse or children. You also haven't demonstrated how those costs would or could be transferred to anyone but the employee in question.
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the guy that says he does not want his companies health costs to go up because gays will get benifits for their spouses may have a valid point, no?
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Is "The Guy" the owner? If so, he can choose to offer partial or full premium payment only to the employee and require them to pay for any added people. If he chooses to offer partial premiums for added people, then he accepts that he will pay for employees and spouses and children and whatever. Where does homosexuality even come into play in this cost/benefit analysis?
Have you ever run a company? What do you do for a living that this argument makes sense and seems so apparently true to you?
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livious, do all companies offer benifits for domestic partners?
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No, but some do not require marriage and will cover any one additional person, whether it be spouse, domestic partner, roommate, mother, etc. Same as your company covering non-dependant children. That's quite rare.