According to the LA Times, a lot of people are getting married to secure insurance coverage:
Some people marry for love, some for companionship, and others for status or money. Now comes another reason to get hitched: health insurance.
Yep. That Blue Cross card is quite the babe magnet:
In a poll released today, 7% of Americans said they or someone in their household decided to marry in the last year so they could get healthcare benefits via their spouse.
And here’s a shocker—-the people who do this tend to be on the lower end of the earnings scale:
Those who cited health insurance as a factor in deciding to marry tended to have modest incomes. About 6 in 10 were in households making less than $50,000 a year.
I’m sure this story has provoked a good deal of tut-tutting among “progressives,” but I see it as a net benefit for society. I mean, maybe the uninsured ”crisis” will save the nuclear family!
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I got knocked up before I got married, and I was on my mom’s insurance due to being in college. I had my insurance cancelled 2 weeks before I gave birth since I had to take a semester off school to work (without warning), so I had to have a courthouse “wedding” to get on Idiot’s insurance.
The divorce alone cost me more than paying for the birth would have….Of course, seeing as he was a sociopath, he promptly quit his job 4 days after having my son, so it was pointless anyway. *****SIGH******
Posted 12 May 2008 at 2:46 pm ¶“I had to have a courthouse “wedding” to get on Idiot’s insurance.”
I’ve married people for dumber reasons.
Posted 12 May 2008 at 7:23 pm ¶Post a Comment