> If your friend is sick - just marry him. Then your insurance can pay for his medical bills. If your friend is dying - just marry him. Then you can collect the inheritance. Of course the same thing has always been the case for people of the opposite sex. I know of a few couples who stayed married only so they could keep the insurance benefits of the other because one of them became seriously ill.

If it was pre-existing then even if they were married, the coverage for that illness would null? Or at least for a period of time?