The New York Times reports on a trend resulting from skyrocketing US health care costs – couples considering marriage, divorce, or delaying divorce for the sake of health benefits. According to a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health policy research group, 7% of respondents stated that someone in their family has married in order to obtain health insurance. The foundation cautions against a literal interpretation of the results, but stresses that the results are of interest because Americans “are making major life decisions on the basis of health care concerns.” Full story.
Tags: divorce, Health Care, insurance, marriage
Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:12 am
this is so true–especially for people ove 55.