This is hardly new news.
Most large corporations have been doing it for a long time.
Here are Mercer percentages of employers by size that offered health coverage to same-sex domestic partners, 2012.
500-999 employees – 36%
1,000-4,999 employees – 52%
5,000-9,999 employees – 62%
10,000-19,999 employees – 67%
20,000 or more employees – 75%
No, what I see as new is that they are offering the same health insurance coverage to heterosexual couples in a committed relationship of at least a year.
(Not Legally Married - State Marriage License Sanctioned)
That changes things - big time(big company) - legally across all state lines (well, except VT - lol).
The government ‘frowns’ on common law marriage
This just opened up the gates.
Heterosexual couples too?