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[quote=Anonymous]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).

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