Will You Marry Me for Health Insurance?

BobbyDelray

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/79cf56f6-4112-4274-8268-df643158dbc6/02CE299E-1BA1-4E67-A471-2C788FBC700E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/29/will-you-marry-me-for-health-insurance/?mod=WSJBlog" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/29/will-you-marry-me-for-health-insurance/?mod=WSJBlog" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.wsj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/29/will-you-marry-me-for-health-insurance/?mod=WSJBlog">Seven percent of Americans said that in the past year they or someone in their household decided to tie the knot mainly so one spouse would be eligible for the other’s health coverage.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/29/will-you-marry-me-for-health-insurance/?mod=WSJBlog">That astonishing figure came from <A target="blank" href="http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/7773.cfm">a survey</A> out today from the Kaiser Family Foundation</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/29/will-you-marry-me-for-health-insurance/?mod=WSJBlog"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.wsj.com/img/46043F05-6CB1-452A-91A5-B6999C5CA19B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/29/will-you-marry-me-for-health-insurance/?mod=WSJBlog">Is marrying for health-care convenience the new <A target="blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-04-09-marriage-fraud_x.htm">marrying to get a Green Card</A>?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/29/will-you-marry-me-for-health-insurance/?mod=WSJBlog">There are 114 million households in America,<A target="blank" href="http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/cps2006/tabAVG1.xls">according to the Census Bureau</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/29/will-you-marry-me-for-health-insurance/?mod=WSJBlog">But the total number of marriages in 2005, the most recent year for which complete national figures are available, is only 2.25 million, <A target="blank" href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr55/nvsr55_20.pdf">according to the National Center for Health Statistics</A>. That puts the total number of people who get hitched — for love, for money, for health insurance, for whatever — at about 4.5 million annually.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/29/will-you-marry-me-for-health-insurance/?mod=WSJBlog"><P>“What people are good at reporting is their perception,” she said. “The broad implication is the cost of health care is important enough that benefits are part of peoples’ life decisions.” </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/02CE299E-1BA1-4E67-A471-2C788FBC700E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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