Programs & Services

Health and Disability Insurance

American Artist’s Guild: One of the goals of the American Artists Guild is for all American artists to be fully insured at a reasonable rate with excellent quality services and care.
Artists United for Healthcare: A national artists’ health care reform website launched by The Actors Fund and other artist support organizations. Find information about the barriers to health insurance faced by individuals, a directory of grassroots organizations fighting for and tools for artist involvement in reform, and links to current news stories on health care reform.
Artists’ Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC): AHIRC provides the arts community with the information necessary to make informed choices about individual and small business group health insurance options available in each state.
Benefits Check Up: Benefits Programs Screening for Older Americans: Developed and maintained by The National Council on Aging, BenefitsCheckUp is the nation’s most comprehensive Web-based service to screen for benefits programs for those over 55 years of age with limited income and resources.
Coalition Against Insurance Fraud: Health Insurance Fraud: The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud is a nonprofit anti-fraud watchdog that speaks for consumers, insurance companies, legislators, regulators and others on issues concerning insurance fraud. The website includes many resources to help consumers avoid health insurance fraud and other forms of insurance fraud.
Cover the Uninsured Week: During the Week, community town hall meetings bring together a wide array of Americans to discuss trends that threaten to increase the number of the uninsured as well as proposals to make health care more affordable.
Fractured Atlas: Healthcare Resources: Fractured Atlas is a non-profit arts service organization that supplies critical tools for independent artists, including access to healthcare.
Health Insurance Consumer Guides: The Georgetown University Health Policy Institute has written and periodically updates “A Consumer Guide for Getting and Keeping Health Insurance” for each state and the District of Columbia.
Health Insurance Navigation Tool: Future of Music Coalition: The purpose of this website is to provide informed, musician-friendly support and advice to curious musicians who need information about health insurance, for free. Although this site is for musicians, it is a good resource for all independent artists.
Healthcare For Artists: Massachusetts: This is an artist run website for Massahusetts artists of all disciplnes and artist run organizations. It provides resources for navigating the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law, its requirements and programs, and the existing available healthcare options, as well as other healthcare related resources.
Insurance Information Institute (III): Disability Insurance Basics: This site offers information and resources that help individuals gain a full understanding of and acquire disability insurance.
Insure Your Health: A State-by-State Guide to Health Insurance Programs: Plan for Your Health (a public education campaign from Aetna and the Financial Planning Association) offers Insure Your Health: A state-by-state guide to finding free or low-cost health insurance programs.
National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE): NASE is a national resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses. Group health insurance is available for NASE members.
Small Business Service Bureau (SBSB): SBSB is a national resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses. Group health insurance is available for SBSB members.
Social Security Administration: Disability Programs: Information and resources for the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income disability programs. The largest of several Federal programs that provide assistance to people with disabilities.