[lbo-talk] Run for the border

[B.]

So how does one reconcile the enormous number of
unmarried married women versus the pressing need to
get married to have medical insurance? (Something that
assumes hubby has a boss generous enough to provide
benefits.)

Is it a case where most of the record-number of
unmarried women are in their twenties -- which is also
an age where folks feel the least need to get med.
insurance?

That is, years back, it wasn't uncommon for women to
get married before they turned 20! Or at least 25.
That seems different now, with more and more single
women waiting 'til their 30s to tie the knot. So, with
women waiting longer to marry, past their twenties,
and with people in their 20s tending not to have (or
"need") health insurance, maybe that's where the twain
meet?

-B.

Jenny Brown wrote:

"The pressure on women to marry is already enormous,
health insurance simply adds to that suffocating
weight."

Doug Henwood wrote:

"But the share of the U.S. population that's never
been married has been rising. In 1990, 18.9% of women
had never been married; in 2005, 21.6%. And the health
insurance environment has never been harsher."