Freelance artists in the United States can get their medical expenses reimbursed in exchange for pictures. A New York hospital is conducting an experiment that's receving a lot of interest from artists, who can barely hold their heads above water financially.
A couple of months ago, US President Barack Obama finally signed a new healthcare law. But freelance artists often can't afford the cost of health insurance.
Photographer Indira Wiegand suffers from asthma. An inhaler costs her 200 dollars, and she can't afford it. Now she takes photos of newborn babies for the hospital, in exhange for which the hospital pays her medical expenses.
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i am a us citizen, i have no health insurance too. i work full time at a insurance brokerage selling home insurance. what a fun life. and last year i took no vacation days, but a few sick days.
work for the health system for credits? ha! what a joke, capitalism is the new feudalism.
ja dit is wat ik denk.
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