Archdiocese of Washington & Spousal Benefits
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Anonymous
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For years my family has been on my employer’s health insurance but now I’m moving to brighter pastures. My spouse works for a Catholic organization in DC and I just found out that his employer won’t allow spouses to be on the Catholic insurance plan. Our kids can, but I can’t.
Why? https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030103345.html and https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/washington-archdiocese-and-same-sex-marriage Basically these old articles state that they don’t offer spousal benefits because they don’t want to be forced to have to (THE HORROR) insure same sex couples. Who made the decision? Cardinal Wuerl, who would rather protect pedophiles than ensure that families of Archdiocese employees have decent healthcare coverage. Now what? Our family will have 2 insurance plans, with 2 deductibles and 2 OOP limits. (This was the least worst option for us. It won’t break us but it’s a pain.) I’m disappointed that my spouse works for such a hypocritical organization and I hope he jumps ship soon. What do DC Catholics think of this policy? To me it’s utterly reprehensible, but my mother (a lapsed Catholic) says it’s pointless to fight the church because they’ll chop off our heads and burn us at the stake anyway (Obviously she’s VERY lapsed and I was raised an Atheist so religious dogma is not my strong suit). |
Anonymous
| My DH's company has the same policy. It's pretty common. |
Anonymous
^^and to be clear it has nothing to do with same sex couples. If you have a job, your employer should cover you. |
Anonymous
| I would assume that it has something to do with gay marriage. The Catholic Church doesn’t approve, and they can’t discriminate, so they say no spouses at all. |
Anonymous
I dont think I’ve ever seen one that excludes spouses entirely. More typical is to have incentives for employed spouses to get covered thrpugh their own employer, or just to make the spousal coverage so expensive that most people will choose to get it through another employer. |
Anonymous
no it isn't |
Anonymous
What company is that. I have never heard of a company that refuses to cover spouses on a family plan. |
Anonymous
| The Catholic Church has a long history of working to denying health care to people. |
Anonymous
| Why is your spouse working for the Church you hate so much? |
Anonymous
| Well if you are in to such brighter pastures, why can’t you carry the insurance for all of you? |
Anonymous
Don’t know about their insurance, but their charitable work is amazing and has saved many, many lives in developing countries. /s not Catholic |
Anonymous
You do realize that both can be true. Some Catholics can help an immense amount of people AND they work very hard to deny health care to certain people... an immense amount of people. Just like they hide and harbor rapists and lobby politicians to protect rapists AND they feed the homeless. |
Anonymous
They aren’t denying to an “immense” amount of people and we both know it. But you’re a repulsive hater, so I’m not going to waste any more time on you. |
Anonymous
Yes they do. Historically the Catholic Church works with politicians to close heath clinics. It’s very well documented. I don’t hate Catholics, I am Catholic holic. I’m also not blind to the changes that need to happen in the church. Are you Catholic? Are you aware of how they lobby Congress and other politicians? Do you truly understand what your donations support? You need to educate yourself and fight for the Cstholic church to follow Jesus’s teachings instead of making money their false god. |
Anonymous
This. |