Why Do People In Love Get Healthcare?
I'm just asking.
Welcome to Cheaper Than Therapy, a newsletter by Shani Silver.
I’m not a policy maker, I don’t think anyone would want me to be. Give me the keys to this kingdom and kitchen faucets will produce iced coffee instead of water. It’s rare that I’ll holler about a problem affecting single people without also offering some feasible solution to something that’s impacting us negatively or unjustly. In this moment I have absolutely no idea what to do about it, but I do know that healthcare shouldn’t be tied to whether or not you’re in love.
It’s obvious why married people can hop on their spouse’s health insurance, it’s the same reason healthcare often comes from your job. They want people working, they want people married, and they want people terrified to walk away from either institution. For a country that won’t shut the fuck up about freedom, this place wants us pinned down by as much as possible. I’ve spoken at length about the financial advantages of being in love, but healthcare is—perhaps ironically—the one that hurts.