"Will Marry For Health Insurance!"

This is DREADFUL

As a Gay Man, I am totally offended by this if it is real. I already wrote to this woman and told her how horrible I believe this is.

Marriage is a sacred, then THIS should not be allowed, just like green card marriages.

Disgraceful

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.

Last summer I watched bizarre news coverage of (some) Americans ranting about how they don't want the government meddling in their health insurance, but this story (assuming it's real) suggests that it's far worse to let a private for-profit corporation decide who does and doesn't get health care.

Screw that, I'll keep my Canadian citizenship and the right to universal health care that comes with it, thanks. It's not without its faults, but nobody is denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions or anything else.

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

The "Links" section of her website... wow. And I guess this is real. Hmm.

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!!

All I have to say, is she should have sprung the extra $8 for whois privacy protect.

@Profkampf: Troll or insane fashist?

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

The only reason you stay in a job is for the health cover????

Screw that, I'll keep my Australian citizenship and the right to universal health care that comes with it, thanks. It's not without its faults, but nobody is denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions or anything else.

ps: and I might change my job any time I like.

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

Assuming it's real, just move to some other part of the world where people believe in treating each other like humans instead of revenue units.

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.

After 30 years of marriage, my hubby dumped me for the sweet young thing. I'm in school, hoping to finish and find a government job before my cobra expires. I also have a bunch of health issues that will make private insurance financially impossible.

And before you damn me, I did work for the ex's business, unpaid, for many years. I also raised a handicapped child (who still, as an adult, lives with me). Pre-existing conditions make jobs hard to find, too.

I wish her only the best. Life still is difficult if you are older, female and single in America.

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.

If marriage is so sacred, then why to half of Christians who get married also get divorced?

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!)

@ShadeSeeker

No offense taken, infact I'd like to be spending time in New Zealand again with my sister now that they have their summer.

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

BTW I'd bang her.

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.

Sad that it would come to this, but people get married for much more frivolous reasons all the time.

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_brokenvows_091024/20091024

As to the "get a job" philosophy. Easier said than done. I'm not sure what her medical condition is but sometimes you can be too weak or ill to physically handle a full time job (one that will pay insurance) and yet still not deemed disabled enough to qualify for disability. I'm speaking from personal experience. My job (which I was able to do from home) is soon to be axed and if my husband left or was fired, without insurance it would cost me close to @1,000 a month to pay for the three medications that keep me at a the most minimal level of functionality -- and that's not counting even basic medical or dental care.

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.

@Dragonflye

"At the end of the day, the government's not responsible for people's individual decisions."

This is so true.

The health "care" system of this country is revolting.

Yes, Profkampf, we should legislate our personal judgements of people's personal lives that hurt no one based on what we think is reasonable and what isn't! I should be the final judge of who can and can't marry, and if they can't prove they're in love to me, screw 'em!

Just like women's bodies. They should only get to use them in ways I think are okay depending on what I think of how they conduct themselves in private.

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 do believe Profkampf was actually taking the piss about it since he himself is denied the right to marry because of the "Marriage is Sacred" argument that keeps governments passing these laws against gay marriages.

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.

For those who keep saying "get a job", listen to this:
I have a rare genetic, degenerative form of muscular dystrophy. While I look alright, for the most part, there are days I do not, cannot, pass for normal. I'm not sick enough to go on disability (and, just to let you know, disability doesn't pay enough to keep anyone alive), but am sick enough that no one will insure me.

Yeah, sure, I have a job. But no one, and I mean NO ONE will insure me. The only thing that keeps me from marrying into insurance, is that, again, no one will insure me. Everything is out of pocket.

And yes, I am leaving the US. Greener pastures, ho!

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.

Profkampf u are what is wrong with our country. Have you no sense of common decency? Are you morally bankrupt? Shame shame shame

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.

simply stated..... if obaba would get off his stupid fat ass and look at whats going on in this country instead of following orders from the communist he is working for he might see how he f#$%%^ed up this country, i wish i could talk to him personally and tell him he is a F#$%#$ing moron.if he really cared at all about stimulating this countries economy he would not have bailed out those companies that failed in the first place. they will simply fail again and where will we be then. he should have gave that money directly to the people, and we would have spent it and directly and instantly stimulated this countries economy.

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.