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The state government extendesd health care and other benefits to partners of state workers last year coverinhg about 750 unmarried heterosexuaoand same-sex couples. The Arizona Senate now is consideringt elimination of those benefits as part of abudget fix. Gay rightsz groups criticized the proposal. “The Senate cites removing coverage for the approximatse 750 employees signed up for domestic partner benefits would save thestate $3 million of the more than $650 million it spends annually on healt h care benefits for state employees,” said Barbara executive director of .
“Targetingy this line item, whicnh amounts to less than 5 percenyt ofthe state’s health care budget, is not about fixing the budgety - it’s about moving a political agenda. Arizona’zs families, children and our health care systekm have been caught in the incompetent leadership at the If the Senate wanted a 5 percent cut in healtg care benefits then they should have made it universalo across the entire system and the effectse should have been felt by all employee s not just those being singled out because of thei rmarital status.
” The Legislature is controlled by Republicans with a substantia l block of social conservatives who opposed the extensioj of benefits in 2008 when Democrat Janet Napolitan o was governor.
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