In 2018 just 6 percent of firms reported that they do not offer such coverage—down from 16 percent in 2016. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Although it has improved, the access that same-sex spouses have to employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) is still “significantly less common than the offer of opposite sex spousal coverage.”
That's according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which also finds that in 2018, 63 percent of employers offering health insurance to opposite sex spouses also offered coverage to same-sex spouses, and that the share of employees with such access has increased over time to 88 percent.
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Marlene Satter
Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
