Will making Gay Marriage legal RAISE/LOWER health care costs?  |
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 I was just sitting here thinking about random stuff, and I had this off-the-wall thought. I don't know what made me think of this, but I figured this would make a good topic for discussion. Making gay marriage legal would mean that gay people would be able to add their "life partners" to their employer provided health/dental insurance as their spouse. Would this cause the cost of insurance premiums to increase or decrease, or would there be no effect on the cost of insurance at all? Also, would this cause an increase/decrease in health care costs in general?
Now, I haven't really given this any thought at all. I just decided to post it here and let you guys hash it out while I am at work tonight. It should be interesting to log on and read the results tonight when I get home. Happy posting...
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1.  OConnell87 (754) | 6 months ago |  This post contains content of a mature nature. You must be Signed in or Registered to have the option to view this content.
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| 2. eszbonna (369) | 6 months ago |  it could but those people, if they married straight, would add them to their insurance...soo.,.,
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| goldeneagle (3496) | 6 months ago | That seems to be the general thought so far. I don't really think it would matter either. I don't really care one way or the other. I am straight, and I am married already, so it makes no difference to me. If for no other reason, I wish they would legalize it just because I am tired of hearing about it. Let them get married so we don't have to hear about it in our news media all the time. LOL
Of course, there are those that are going to try to find ANY angle for an argument against it. In reality, I don't really think it is going to make much of a difference one way or the other. | |
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| eszbonna (369) | 6 months ago | i agree. besides it dosnt have anything to do with those ppl who are arguing the most, so why obsess? | |
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3.  polachicago (7876) | 6 months ago |  It has nothing to do with insurance cost. Per insurance, they are able to add living partner to insurance already and it has nothing to do with legalizing marriage or not...
Insurance cost is not related to marriage, you can add any living partner to Insurance.
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4.  Barbietre (1237) | 6 months ago |  In many companies there are already provisions for people/partner you live with, so I see no differnce and in fact see a more permanent partner as a good thing.
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| 7. suspenseful (17072) | 6 months ago |  You can add anyone to your medical insurance, your friend, your spouse, your children, grand children. What the same gender marriage may do is to make certain diseases more acceptable and other conditions not. So you might get greater coverage of AIDS and HIV but then maybe some cancers caused by being out in the sun too long or strokes or heart disease and diabetes caused by a person not eating right and eating junk food may see their coverage lowered.
As long as a person can add his best friend to his health coverage as long as he does not specify that his friend may be in the same bed as he, it would be all right and nothing will change.
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