Single Shot: Health coverage might be the latest reason to wed
I love working; I love earning my own keep. But what I don't love is that good health care is so out of reach for a certain segment of society that it's making people consider all sorts of wacky schemes to "get some."
In 2007, for instance, 7 percent of U.S. adults got married not because they were madly in love, but because one or the other needed health insurance, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health policy research group.
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"To marry or not to marry" has long been the question that most answer in the affirmative. Despite our American romantic reputation, economic considerations have long been seriously considered by a hefty percentage of Americans when considering the marital question. That aging persons are more open about the mercenary side of the decision-making process may be the only real news here. Our most eminent living historian of marriage says not expect a big difference in marriage rates, that most will still opt for living together to cut costs over marrying for health insurance. I tend to agree.