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by Gary E. Andrews - 06/19/26 06:43 PM
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Anthony,
If you are a full time musician, when exactly are you going to work your additional "day" job? And what is wrong with musicians and writers who are working professionally (i.e. not as a hobby like you) creating an insurance program so they can enjoy the same benefit of all other "day jobs." After all, doing music full time IS a day job. Actors and Authors and Journalists etc.. for example have a great health insurance program available for members of their profession. Musicians and Songwriters are really the only professional group in the arts without a unified health plan.
Are you suggesting everyone but musicians deserve access to insurance as a professional group? i.e. someone who works for McDonalds should be entitled to insurance, but not someone playing music out live 6 nights a week, or the person who is teaching a kid how to play piano etc..?
If you choose not to have insurance, that is great. You're CHOOSING not to. Hopefully nothing catastrophic will happen to you which would ruin your family financially to treat you. I think most folks would like to protect their families, spouses and children from that risk. Plus it might be nice to be able to afford things like treatment for Cancer or a Heart Attack or Diabetes or a severe accident. For you be against artists having the opportunity to get this coverage is bizarre. But it's a free world. Some people are against everything. For the rest of us, insurance sounds like a pretty good idea.
Brian
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