The reduction of marriage to essentially a shared address is in part because the relationship has been divorced from it’s sociological purpose of managing biological realities so that women are protected and children raised with stability and without dependence on government “charity.”

Marriage is now very nearly a nothing. Instead we are all to be brides of the state.

I’ve never thought an employer should have such a stranglehold on group insurance; it is almost an accident that most plans have been provided by employers; most of you already know how that came about.
You also know how latter day entitlement programs have distorted the payouts and payment structure of private insurance.

The sensible thing would have been to restore the relationship between the true consumers of health care and insurers. It would have made sense to make health care savings accounts and to give families full deductions for purchase of health insurance, and to change fica structure so that employers can pay wages instead.

Instead of offering individual families the same tax breaks that employers heretofore had for purchase of insurance, the government is now reducing tax breaks employers get while also not providing them to individuals.

Any plan should have to allow for coverage of any nuclear family member. For a spouse not to be treated as a true member of the family, and dependent, reflects a deep shift in the values of the country and it means the destruction of the family, the end of husband and wife. Welcome to your brave new world.

You mean those idiots?

BuckeyeSam on February 23, 2013 at 12:13 PM

Sadly yes.

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How many people are stupid enough to sign a contract without knowing what it means to them. Oh nevermind…

long dogs on February 23, 2013 at 12:07 PM

You mean the morons who incurred mortgage indebtedness without understanding the terms of their obligations, thus precipitating the housing bubble, the financial crisis, the election of Obama, the enactment of Obamacare, the enactment of Dodd-Frank, the near mortally wounding of our economy, and the media meme that the GOP and free markets caused all of our current problems?

You mean those idiots?

So without spousal insurance coverage to worry about, hiring a man would probably produce a higher return on investment since they don’t get pregnant and consume less health care. We reap what we sow. Elections have meaning.

rhombus on February 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM

And that’s something to think about if you’re going on a job interview. Even better if you have no kids.

rhombus on February 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM

So true – no birth control, no abortion, no pregnancy, no estrogen treatment. Plus no maternity leave.