ladyofthehouse:

Working on a hearing.

I heard an absolutely startling fact. It was one that I was aware of but had never heard put so succinctly, in such awful black and white, before.

• Artists are the one group of people where the more successful they become, the less likely they are to have health insurance.

This post makes me want to cry  - both from frustration and relief. Frustration because my husband and I, both artists, have been uninsured for the last 3.5 years, as has our daughter, and relief that someone is saying it. Did you know that the children of artists are also punished? Cayce doesn’t qualify for KidCare because we choose to be unemployed by choosing to be self employed (incidentally, women in Florida have to purchase separate maternity plans if they intend to have children, because despite paying three times as much as men for a standard plan, maternity care is not included)(Florida just loves women and children). 

In July, Scott broke his wrist and tore ligaments in his elbow. You know what we did about that? Taped him up with supplies from Walgreens and taught him to type and use his camera with the other hand until he healed (or we assumed he did). 

Something needs to change.