Comments on: Free-For-All Friday 7/20/12

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:27:35 +0000

The CSD Human Resources web page states that employees receive the “State Health Benefit Plan for Major Medical”. On the GA Dept. Community Health website, one of the state health plans states that eligible dependents are:

-Your legally married spouse; as defined by Georgia law.
-Your dependent children who are:
1. Natural or legally adopted children or Stepchildren under age 26.
2. Other children under 26.
3. Your natural children, legally adopted children or stepchildren who are disabled prior to age 26 from categories 1 and 2 above who are physically or mentally disabled prior to age 26, lives with the enrolled member or is institutionalized and depends primarily on the enrolled member for support. (Poor grammar and punctuation cut and pasted verbatim.)

That doesn’t seem to cover same sex partners. But maybe CSD was able to get a State Health Plan variation that does cover same sex partners? Decatur, which has a large and open LGBT community, including teachers and leaders in CSD, might want to model offering benefits to same sex partners. However, participation in the State Health Plan could preclude that kind of coverage.

By: tiptoe

tiptoe — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:59:14 +0000

So does Agnes Scott!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:39:40 +0000

They should have them. The only exemptions are religious and political organizations.

By: DudeinDecatur

DudeinDecatur — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:18:38 +0000

I did not see any.

By: Cubalibre

Cubalibre — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:19:49 +0000

The Muppets apparently dislike bigotry, as well: http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=745199

I have to say, it takes a lot of guts to pass on the revenue from toys in kids’ meals– I’m sure it brought in a tidy sum for Henson Enterprises.