Out in the Mountains

Domestic Partners’

Health Insurance
Covered by
Addison County Group

Cleland Selby

The Counselling Service of Addison
County (CSAC) provided the domestic
partners of its employees with health care
benefits a month before Ben & Jeriys’ in-
itiated a similar policy. Each organization
did so over a year ago without any of the
public outcry which the City of Burlington
has experienced over the past few months.

Holly Clook, personal manager for the
CSAC stated “We like to think we were
there early on. We feel that domestic part-
ners should have the same rights as mar-
ried partners, and this was one way we
could make that happen.” The CSAC es-
tablished specific criteria to define “do-
mestic partner” based mainly on the cri-
teria used by the city of Santa Cruz,
California.

According to Clook the employees at the
Counselling Service were surveyed to de-
termine their thoughts about the issue.
Most of the employees were very positive
about implementing the existing policy.
Clook states that there are “not a sig-
nificant number of persons being covered
as domestic partners, probably less than
five right now.” For the past year CASC
has covered the cost for partners of em-
ployees. “It has not been a real expense to
implement this.” V

 

 

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