MPH’s Gonzales weighs in on domestic partner health care options
Unmarried couples looking for domestic partner health care benefits may encounter some unwelcome changes this open-enrollment season. After the June 2015 landmark Supreme Court decision that declared bans against same-sex marriage unconstitutional, many Fortune 500 companies started to rethink their health care coverage for unmarried partners. Now that same-sex partners can get married, the thinking goes, there’s no need to continue to offer domestic partner coverage. Gilbert Gonzales, assistant professor of health policy at Vanderbilt School of Medicine weighs in on the options.