Quoting the article:
Hanley didn't want to lose his health insurance while his wife, Laura, was receiving costly chemotherapy treatments for a blood disease that will likely lead to cancer. The medical bills last year, she says, were in the tens of thousands of dollars.
"There's no way I could possibly go through one treatment without him having insurance," she says.
Not exactly an "idiotic" reason, hm?
So I guess that keeps him from moving too hm? Like I said idiotic. And why shouldn't he pay for his wife's health problems?