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1Robin Fretwell Wilson, J.D., is the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law & Director of the Epstein Health Law and Policy Program and the Family Law and Policy Program, University of Illinois College of Law.
Abstract:
This article teases out the relationship between family form and the state's social safety nets around healthcare, showing the deep unfairness of measuring social safety nets by whether a couple marries. By continuing to tie healthcare benefits to specific family structures, we perpetuate the "galloping" inequality marking America today. This article concludes that, whatever happens with the thousands of benefits given to married couples in other domains, social policy should move beyond marriage with respect to healthcare. Delinking support for healthcare coverage and services from family form is just, better assists struggling families, and is in our collective self-interest.
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