Dark Horse is doing nothing different than any of probably 20,000+ other small businesses in the US. What we should be talking about are the 1000+ employee companies who have such prohibitions.
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I can't speak for Dark Horse's insurance broker, but here's how it worked when I worked for a 30-person firm who self-insured.
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Companies of that size don't have the scale issues that make insurance work really great. One employee getting sick can cause a lot of cost. So insurance companies offer small group plans tailored to small businesses.
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These plans often have coverage restrictions that kind of "smooth out" the bumps in risk models for groups that size. They necessarily include many exclusions. This is why we need single payer. A firm of 30 isn't big enough to smooth out the bumps enough.
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Trans people are 1% of the population. If one trans person joins a company of 30, that company has ~3x trans overrepresentation compared to population average. This fucks up the risk model a lot. Almost all small group plans therefore have trans exclusions. This is fucked up.
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It's fucked up because trans healthcare isn't really that costly. And it's fucked up because trans people have a right to medical coverage. But this is a story that is common across 20,000+ small businesses in the US. Why are we going after one business, but not the system?
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Aren’t many of the artists writers and inkers in dark horse comics self employed freelancers? For those people this shouldn’t be an issue. That aside comic book creatives are some of the most diverse around, it seems counter productive for Dark Horse to exclude minorities
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..when doing so could mean they are missing out on talent
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I really don't, and that's really really disturbing that those exist and are so common. I'm not surprised somehow. Upset, concerned, not surprised. We gotta work to fix this.
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