Health Insurance for domestic partners

By Mark Pitsch
The Courier-Journal

The University of Louisville is considering offering health insurance benefits to the non-married domestic partners of U of L employees.

The school would be the first public university in the state to do so, said John Drees, a university spokesman.

Gay and lesbian as well as heterosexual partners would be eligible, he said.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington, D.C.-based gay and lesbian rights group, 298 universities across the country offer health insurance benefits to domestic partners.

U of L trustees are scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to authorize President James R. Ramsey “to take appropriate action for the inclusion of domestic partners” in the university’s employee health insurance benefit policy.

Further details of the proposal weren’t immediately available.

The trustee meetings are scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. They are held in the Jefferson Room of Grawemeyer Hall.

Read full coverage in Thursday’s Courier-Journal.