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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1727267" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, yes, that's rather the point.  A marriage requires a lot of work.  If you aren't aware of that, and ready, willing, and able to do it, you shouldn't get married.The fact that it is the only solution available doesn't make it a good solution.   That's using a screwdriver to hammer in a nail.  If the problem is the cost of health care, treat the actual problem - the cost of health care.  Attacking the situation tangentially fails to get to the root of the problem.  The original problem will continue to exist, and thus will eventually bite you on the butt.  When it does so, it will be even a more intractable problem than it is now.Edit- I should note that this is as far into the politics of the matter as I'm willing to go.  I would not find it appropriate to go further into the legal issues tied into marriage.</blockquote>