“Will Marry For Health Insurance!”

that’s right, Profkampf, instead of making the best of a bad situation she should be forced to bankrupt herself, loose her house and pass on her debt to her 4 children… because that’s fair.

As an aside, I’m happily married, but I’ve always wondered what’s so ‘sacred’ about it.

Why not find a job like the rest of us who work and stay on difficult jobs so we can have health insurance?

I don’t blame her. Cobra is expensive for something you may or may not use. You can’t write it off. Even with insurance, coverage still sucks!!

@Profkampf: Troll or insane fashist?

more proof that not al things get better when you let corporations do it…

She is very attractive. Skipweasel is correct: she should try Europe or Canada to find a husband. She should have no trouble.

As long as the USA has a two-party system that is controlled by corporate interests, we will never have meaningful health-care reform here. We sneer at the “corrupt” Mexican government, but ours is no better, maybe just a bit more discreet.

Profkampf and Working woman, I am an unemployed lesbian in Michigan where we have 15% unemployment. My partner has fantastic benefits but because Gay Unions aren’t accepted, I am treated like a 2nd class citizen. I have a Master’s degree and even I can’t find a job. Try not to be so judgemental because you could lose your health care too.

She should come to Australia! We have a good non discriminatory health system here too like Canada but the weather’s better!! (don’t be offended – I love Canada!)

Wow Profkampf, how fucking hypocritical can you be? Marriage is not fucking sacred. It’s an institution that serves capitalism.

I was intending to marry my husband anyway, but after living together four years I developed some issues that needed professional attention and was denied coverage by Blue Cross/Blue Shield. It was the kick in the ass we needed to legally tie the knot. And then I had health insurance through his job and my health problems were resolved. Mostly. So my point is she might be serious.

You all should come to Canada where health care is universal AND gay marriage is legal.

In fact, if Terri Carlson managed to marry a Canadian of either gender, she could dissapear within days and her spouse would be responsible for paying back the government. But that’s another story…

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091023/w5_broken vows_091024/20091024

The first thing I thought when I read the article is that she should find a nice gay man to marry, so it was funny to see Profkampf’s comment. Poor guy is bitter that he can’t marry another man, and yeah, that’s unfair, but why does he have to be all catty about it and go attacking her? Her situation has nothing to do with him.

The health “care” system of this country is revolting.

I am Canadian and I have thought about marrying my boyfriend just so he can have my extended health beneifts, basic medical only goes so far. I am divorced so I don’t really want to remarry, but since we live together (but it takes 2 years to be commonlaw under my insurance) and he is a student, so he cant go to the dentist, get any prescriptions ect. it would be more practical just to marry for the benefits.

I wish we could open up the medical debate in this country. In one hand you’ve got the utterly corrupt Republicans, who speak stridently in support of the current highly regulated system that drives prices through the roof and provides and artificial monopoly (cartel) that allows the doctors and pharma companies, key Republican donors, to keep their rates high.

I mean, when was the last time you heard ANY talking head making the connection between how fiendishly difficult it is to sell medical services and the high prices? Without those restrictions, quality might fall for some, but rates would plummet for all.

On the other hand, we have the generally incompetent and also corrupt Democrats who basically want to socialize the whole system, basically keeping the artifically high prices and probably driving them even higher, but putting it on the public credit card because everybody knows that the bill will never come due, right?

It’s a sad situation.

I can’t believe that people think this is a hoax. I’m 42 years old and was mangled by a doctor in a “routine” surgery 7 years ago. (Med. malpractice reform kept me from getting anything from the doctor.) I’ve been fighting the gov’t for 5 years to get access to SSDI only so I can get Medicare. I’ve been to specialists all over the country who all say that my condition was created by doctor error and is irreversible and disabling. COBRA ran out long ago and my prescriptions alone are over $1500 a month. (thank god for my private disability insurance who decided I was permanently disabled long ago b/c every bit of my health-care is out of pocket). BTW I was finally awarded SSDI benefits this fall but with a arbitrary onset date of this last summer. The wait after acceptance by SSDI for Medicare is 24 months so no end in sight to my mess for another 2 years. In the meantime I get sicker since I can’t afford anything but the most basic care. It’s not a hoax or a joke for thousands of us.

i applaud you for this. im not quite in the same boat, but very close. my wife has epileptic seisure with grand maul tendancies. for those who dont know what this means, its like catching a fish and watching it flop on the boat floor. we used to be on acchess which is state health care, but was recently declined to continue as they think i make too much. well i just got layed off, and now have no income, or health insurance. i do not care about myself, i only want for my wife, and our son.

Terri I wish you all the best, you are fighting to stay alive and well and I hope someone will take you up on your offer.

I have lost my insurance due to my husbands job loss and could not afford cobra, I am very unwell and cannot find another job right now because I am so unwell.

The ironic thing is I am originally from a commonwealth country with free health care, my hubby of almost 30 yrs wants a divorce now.

I would marry a rich man so I could get home and they would be able to live in my beautiful country, one must do what one needs to do to stay alive and survive sometimes.