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Do same-sex married couples get insurance?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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If you mean can they buy insurance jointly or insure each other, then the answer is "yes" in states where same-sex marriage is legal. If you mean to ask if an employer will give health, dental, optical insurance benefits to the same-sex spouse, then the answer is this:

In states where same-sex marriage is legal, if an employer gives any benefit to the spouses of its workers, then it cannot legally deny that benefit to the spouse of one of its workers merely because his marriage is a same-sex marriage.

So the answer is yes. If they extend insurance coverage to spouses, then they must do so to ALL spouses.

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