The ability to add an adult in one's household onto health insurance for state employees would be a matter of equity and competitivenes.  For a variety of reasons, a large number of state employees have another adult in their household with whom they are not married but have an on-going relationship in which they share living expenses, care of children or needy family members, and household duties. Currently, they lack the ability to put this person on their health insurance. Some of these adults have health insurance of their own, but many do not, or lose it temporarily. Meanwhile, married couples can automatically put both members on state health insurance, even though the spouses have a relationship which in economic and emotional terms is no different than the two people in the unmarried household.  We have lost employees to states where they would be able to have health insurance for both members of the couple. I urge you as a matter of fairness and competitiveness to enact this change.