Artists Health Insurance Survey Underway
From now through August 31, 2013, Future of Music Coalition, Fractured Atlas and the Artists’ Health Insurance Resource Center are joining forces with artist service organizations across the country to take the pulse of the artist community regarding access to health insurance via an online survey.
Prior research has found that artists of all types — dancers, actors, musicians, visual artists, filmmakers — are less likely to be insured than the general working population. With the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this year and next, these organizations want to know: how many artists are presently insured? What are the factors that make it difficult to get insured under current conditions? What are artists’ expectations about the ACA, and will its rollout change their behaviors about health insurance coverage in the future?