On Jan. 1, Arizona will cut off health-care benefits to about 600 heterosexual, unmarried domestic partners of state employees.
Gov. Jan Brewer and the Legislature made the benefit change as part of budget cuts in 2009. They intended to eliminate benefits for a much broader group, including adult children and gay partners of state employees.
However, the new federal health-care law and a court ruling have forced the state to continue covering those groups, leaving opposite-sex partners the only class impacted by the cuts.
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What the hell is wrong with Jan Brewer? It seems Brewer does not care about AZ citizen. On Countdown they have had several people from AZ talk about how they are being denied services from the state of AZ. Brewer seems to be so PROUD of not supplying these people with organs that could save their lives. If these people do NOT get these organs they will die and leave families with kids and single parent home. How x-tian is this? I guess it depends on what x-tianity you follow. I am dugusted with Brewer and her arragonant pride.