This is an amendment that will help many more Virginia families, including parents with adult children at home, adult children caring for parents who don't qualify for Medicare, and state employees who have partners that are self employed or unemployed. The burden of payment falls on the employee, not on the State.  Employees would have to pay 100% of the cost of OQA premiums for coverage. This would be in contrast to current state benefits that pay over 80% of the cost of premiums for employees, spouses and covered dependents.  Why shouldn't these benefits extend to all State employees?