What does it say about our economy when nearly a quarter of workers in a new poll say they’ve stuck with their jobs (or taken a new one) just because they need the health benefits?
It probably says about the same thing as the 7 percent of adults who, in the past year, got married in order to have access to their spouse’s health care benefits, or so their spouse could have access to their benefits.
So it’s probably no surprise that the Kaiser Family Foundation poll, released today, finds that health care costs rank among Americans’ top personal economic problems, and that their struggles to deal with those costs have affected both their financial well-being and their family’s health care, the foundation says.