I just put A. on my health insurance.
The only other tiime in my life I ever carried someone on my insurance was a long time ago, and, in may ways, was the death knell of the relationship. On some level, I think, cubconsciously, this is why I held off on doing it until the end of the year – we both had health insurance… there was no rush.
Now, however, I’m financially planning for two. A. is horrible at long-term anything, and is very indecisive about benefits assignment and investment. I’m trying to put together a good budget for the coming year, which will be the first year we file joint, I think. I don’t know if it will make sense for us to file joint for 09, though it may – I’d prefer to file together the first year it was planned for, mostly to try and preserve capitol as much as possible.
It is wierd, being responsible for someone else’s health insurance – with all the hubbub out there now, in regards to the importance of health insurance in general, it has caretianly made me more thoughtful on the costs and coverage that we have.
I can only hope that, whatever I figure out in terms of my career in the coming year, I figure out something that makes the insurance decision a sound one.