Joint health insurance has become one of the most concrete reasons to get married these days, and many couples decide to walk down the aisle in order to get access to one partner's employee health plan. But domestic partner health benefits are becoming more widely available each year. If you're hoping to get health insurance through your partner (or vice versa), you'll want to know:

- How to convince your employer to add domestic partner benefits if it doesn't already offer them

- Responses to the four most common arguments against DP benefits

- What you can do if your employer has a gays-only DP policy, and you're not gay (there's hope!)

- Why 90% of employers that provide DP benefits make them available to both same-sex and opposite-sex couples

- The difference between domestic partner registries and domestic partner benefits