My new favorite blog, Think Progress, linked to an article in the LA Times today that reports the results from a recent Kaiser Family Poll stating that 7% of Americans say that they or someone in their family married in the past year in order to obtain health insurance.
Health insurance is way too expensive. But we already knew that. What's really upsetting is that individuals are having to decide between their independence and health insurance. That single people would be left unprotected while married couples are only tenuously protected (as long as one member of the couple remains employed) just goes to further illustrate the anachronistic (and institutionalized) perception in our society of marriage as "right" and singledom as "wrong." Furthermore, and much worse really, it also illustrates how our government refuses to take responsibility for the health of its citizens, leaving individuals and couples to scramble for even meager and expensive coverage in any way they can. Even if it means getting married to a boring and smelly someone with great health care coverage. Though, perhaps the health care coverage would at least take care of the smell. And with all the advances in medical technology, who knows, perhaps soon enough we'll have a cure for boredom as well!
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