ThinkProgress: It’s not yet clear how many people purchased insurance through the exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act that opened up yesterday. But one of the things I’ve been hearing from a lot of creative people is that the ACA has made it easy to be, or to contemplate being, an artist. Being a writer, or a visual artist, or a musician, or an actor, has always been an economically risky choice where a few people succeed in dramatic terms, a larger number figure out middle-class existences doing what they love at least part of the time, and others struggle to do what they love. The ACA, and the ability to purchase more affordable insurance as an individual, doesn’t change that economic calculus. But it does help minimize a risk factor that can make it impossible to attempt careers as artists at all.
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It is a really great shame that the AHA has received as much confused and completely misinformed resistance as it has. In interviews conducted on the streets, people say "I support the AHA but i think obamacare is a horrible socialist program that will destory America". There is no difference between the two, Obamacare is the nickname for the other. For people who take advantage of it, in states that take advantage of the AHA's benefits, it will help the financial situation of artists and a great many more people.
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