text: how do you feel about companies extending medical coverage to domestic partners? more and more companies are extending medical coverage to domestic partners of employees.  do you think this in some way isn't fair to those heterosexual couples that live together?  it seems like they are getting penalized for being heterosexual.  what do you think? i think more companies are dropping or decreasing coverage, rather than expanding it.  no one gets penalized for anything in the employment sector.  medical coverage is a part of one's salary package.  either you get paid in wages or wages and benefits.  medical coverage premiums are based on actuarial statistics.  there is data available for married couples;  i.e. ages, length of marriage, kinds and costs of illness.  for unmarried people living together, there is no similar data, such as no start date, no end date of a relationship. some employers do extend medical coverage to unmarried partners, both homosexual and heterosexual.  some employers do not furnish medical insurance to any employees, under any circumstances. if you can show the president of your company that there is a benefit, to the company, that coverage be afforded to unmarried partners, i am sure he will listen.