LOS ANGELES : State Urged to Offer Health Plans to Unmarried Couples
The Los Angeles City Council joined several other cities Friday in urging the state Public Employees Retirement System to grant health insurance coverage to the unmarried partners of public employees.
The motion by Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg was approved unanimously in anticipation of next week’s League of Cities annual conference in San Francisco. Goldberg, the city’s first openly gay elected official, is working on legislation that would grant health insurance and other benefits to the partners of unmarried Los Angeles city employees.
“This is an important step toward improving health care for unmarried couples, some with children,” Goldberg said.
“Also benefiting would be gay and lesbian couples who have no other way of obtaining family coverage.”
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