HEY STRAIGHT GUYS

[triggur]

Wanna see what I have to fill out in order to qualify to buy same-sex domestic partner insurance benefits at my company?

Hint:  They won't accept our Canadian marriage license.

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Affidavit of Domestic Partnership

______________________________________                    _____________________
Employee’s Name

Comments

[oats_a_plenty]

Least they CAN get healthcare. Not all straight guys believe in commitment. I'm in a hetro-relationship and can't even get a domestic partnership with the person, so no fringe health benefits for me.

[dv_girl]

Oh hey, let me tell you that spouse coverage for healthcare for damn queers isn't that great really.

Just before Bush left office he pushed through an executive order to burn bridges.

He made it so that I must pay taxes on my partner's healthcare at the 'Fair Market Value' of the policy. IE as if she'd gotten the policy as an individual instead of part of my company's group plan healthcare. (Before that, it was pre-tax)

It's only about a $3,000/year difference. Not really a big deal on top of the $6,000/year extra I pay I federal taxes because I'm 'single'.

But you know, all I want is special privileges... ... Yeah, I'd LIKE MY NINE GRAND BACK PLZ!

[mackys]

> 5.) We are not related by blood in a manner that would bar our marriage in the state of _________________________, the state in which we reside; and

Hahaha. Oh, the implications of this item...

I wonder if this insurance company hassles rednecks who marry their sister? ;]

[krin_o_o_]

Another possibility is to prevent reverse-dependent care.

[yippee]

hmm ... my 2001-2003 job had to file this to cover Croc's benefits. I think tho, that one of the "X-or-more-of-the-following" included the California Registered Domestic Partnership certificate, but the 2003-onward job honored the DP cert as equivalent to marriage. Then there's the whole Imputed Income thing we had to deal with...

[ssurgul]

I LOVE these. It just reinforces that insurance and marriage are pure horseshit.

I can run to the Justice of the Peace and get a marriage cert with a random, literally random, woman right now and none of this shit would apply. And it's not as though spousal insurance is 'cheap'. In most cases it's at least as bad as for the primary. So if the primary wants to double cover and double pay that way, who are they to declare otherwise, since either way they're getting their money? I hate even the concept of insurance and medical insurance triply so now after the healthcare reform terror scams they and the Retardicans spewed out.

[tekfox]

Took me all of 5 minutes to get dire on my healthcare. Intel is at least good about that.

[direwolf23]

i r on ghey hellcares.