Governor Tim Kaine is proposing to extend state health care benefits to “other qualified adults” living in the households of state employees.
Under the proposal, adults without health benefits who share a home with an insured state worker would be eligible for coverage. This would include domestic partners – heterosexual or homosexual – who live with a state employee. Sixteen other states provide benefits to domestic partners, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
As the article points out, Kaine’s administration is drafting the regulations but enactment would be up to Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell.
This proposal, which has the support of “several state college and university presidents,” is long overdue. I hope McDonnell sees fit to enact it. (Of course, I wish Kaine had done it earlier.)
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
Like THAT’S going to pass — or be signed.
Thanks, Tim. A real stand up guy, you are.
McDonnell and his republicans passing this would be as likely as the Redskins making the Superbowl this year. They simply are not structured that way. Remember they think America had more values in the days when blacks, women, and poor people were discriminated against. Very wishful thinking and the right thing to do but impossible under Republican leadership.