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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumslegally married but their boss disagrees
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/legally-married-but-not-according-to-their-boss/385673/?nk2z21
Call it a little ditty about Jackie and Diana: Jacqueline Cote and Diana Smithson met on Cape Cod in 1992, fell in love, and moved to Maine together in 1998. They both got jobs at Walmart, working side by side in the bakery department. In 2003, they decided to make it official. They moved to Massachusetts and, five days after the state made it legal, they got married. They both continued to work in various positions at Walmart stores.
In 2006, Cote was promoted to a management job, where she made significantly more money and generally enjoyed the work. The following year, Smithson quit her own job in order to care for Cotes elderly mother, who had dementia.
Cote tried to add Smithson to her health-insurance plan as a spouse. When she logged into Walmarts employee-benefits site, she said it required her to select her spouses gender.
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SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)1. Hopefully Walmart has to pay the entire debt
But I do wonder how the private insurance company was able to cancel the insurance when the spouse became ill...I thought the ACA prohibited that????
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)2. Not sure I get this...
" In 2012, Smithson was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and she lost the private insurance she had been paying for separately."
Isn't the point of the private insurance to cover situations like these?... If she was paying the premium, why did she lose the insurance when she got ovarian cancer?
father founding
(619 posts)3. that's why its called health insurance
It only covers health, not sickness.