Getting Married to a Health Plan

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Alarming Statistic of the Week: Five percent of adults report that they or someone else in their household decided to get married in the past year mainly to have access to the new spouse’s healthcare benefits. Another 5 percent report getting married so the spouse could share their own health coverage.

The same Kaiser Family Foundation poll that yielded these morsels found 12 percent of its respondents saying they or another household member switched jobs in the past year “mainly because the new job offered better healthcare benefits.”

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