terri carlson, a 45 year old divorced mom from california, wants to get married, but not for love...not even for money...for health insurance!
carlson's cobra runs out in may and due to an autoimmune disease, finding new insurance will be hard. so she took to the web and launched willmarryforhealthinsurance.com where she let the world know that, while she would love to find love, she needs the insurance even more! she says in her video: “i don’t care what you look like...what I do care about is how good your health insurance is...so attach your health care benefit information.” while it may seem ludicrous that carlson hopes to tie the knot to snag health insurance, over 1,000 proposals came in a one week period alone.
my point, and i do have one...is what does this say about america? while washignton argues over health care, the average person is left to do whatever they need to in order to literally survive. and while i know it is a side issue, what does this say about the "sanctity" of marriage? this woman has the right to enter into holy matrimony purely for health care, yet our gay friends can't, even for love. god bless america!
AMEN! Not sure when I turned the corner and started rooting for anyone who can beat the system and by whatever means. Maybe it's when I lost faith in the system. The one that is now denying my friend her prescription coverage while unemployed and threatened to take her home when she got cancer. The same system that denies me the right to marry the one I love because it mandates marriage is only between a man and a woman.
ReplyDeleteWell who knew thats all I had to do to get health insurance?! Who wants to marry me? This is absurd, seriously, is this even actually legal?
ReplyDeletei totally agree... america likes to think that it has the best of everything, but it's kinda messed up and backwards in many ways! i just don't understand why people are fighting so hard to keep people uninsured! it's ridiculous!
ReplyDeleteI simply do not understand why more people are not completely outraged by the amount of profits insurance companies are making. Many Americans do not have insurance or can be dropped at anytime. Others are under insured or struggle to make payments. And what do we get? Higher premiums, bigger co-pays & less coverage. It's sad & immoral.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I know someone personally who married her long time boyfriend for insurance. They had been together forever and had no plans to get hitched but then she lost her job & insurance & next thing you know..da..da..da..da....
Here's a new business concept, if it isn't already taken:
ReplyDeleteIn addition to paying your monthly health insurance premiums (if you can get health insurance / a job), you and hundreds of thousands of others can pay a little extra a month to a company who has a pool of lawyers who will stomp the health care cos / play the paperwork game when they start trying to deny your claims. Then, if your claim gets denied for whatever reason, you can utilize their services. TurboTax offers an audit defense program, somebody needs to develop an ImaGonnaSickMyArmyOfLawyersOnYourGreedyHealthInsuranceCoAss program.
I'm the first to admit I'm a Hardcore Capitalist, but the medical system in this country is a hot mess.
agreed. the US is an amazing country but right now i feel we are backwards. from heathcare companies screwing the american public to politicians voting against their own bills just to screw with the other party, it's a sad state of affairs right now. i don't really understand why people are pissed at healthcare reform. they should be pissed at healthcare companies who raise their rates or deny people coverage based on pre-existing conditions. they should be pissed at congressmen who listen to lobbyists instead of working for their voters.
ReplyDeletei know that there's no such thing as a perfect system for everyone, but there's so much partisanship right preventing everyone from doing what's right for the american public. maybe if the pundits and politicians who are so against a public healthcare reform would be forced to to live their lives as some of the unlucky who don't have adequate heathcare, they would view this subject differently.
wow! That is a very interesting story/fact! I kind of understand the woman who tries to get better health insurance through marriage. Yet, as metioned above, I also under who will be willing to marry to someone who needs health insurance. I suppose most of people want to have partners with good health.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, she can start her own online business to match people and good insurance holders so that she will be rich enough not to worry about getting married to someone with good insurance?? (probably it would be too late for her though.)
Besides, I know some people who chose their jobs for pension/insurance.