This is interesting. Very interesting:
Some of the largest employers in Massachusetts have decided not to extend health benefits to spouses of gay and lesbian employees, saying their federally regulated health plans are not bound by the Massachusetts court ruling permitting gay marriage.
These employers provide medical care through what are known as self-insured health plans, in which the employer, not an insurer, collects the premiums and pays the medical and hospital bills of its workers. These employers said they are not required to cover same-sex spouses because self-insured plans are regulated by federal law, which defines marriage as a union only between a man and a woman. Sixty-six percent of large US employers with more than 500 workers are self-insured, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
Hmm. Isn’t Massachusets the state of Ted Kennedy and John Kerry? I guess it is all Bush’s fault. Woops, wait a second, Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Blimey!
The act, signed by President Bill Clinton, is also the legal underpinning for excluding gay and lesbian spouses from federal programs, such as Social Security.
The act states ‘‘the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex.’’ Self-insured plans are regulated by a federal pension law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
And the DU’ers do not like this one bit.
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Yet one more reason I think Clinton is overrated.
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WTF???? Clinton is overrated?????
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clinton signed DOMA into law n/t
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and don’t forget "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" and NAFTA and the "ending welfare as we know it". I agree. Bill Clinton was the best President the Republicans ever had.
So now he is our President. LOL. Cannabalism of the Dems.
