Will Play for Health Care (at Least at One Music Event)

[Chris_]

Will Play for Health Care (at Least at One Music Event)

The O+ Festival in San Francisco this weekend would seem a typical indie arts event, with performances by local musicians and displays of funky art. But in a twist that highlights a longstanding problem in the creative economy, the artists involved will be paid not in cash but rather in something they may need just as badly: health care.

The three-day festival, which began on Friday, pairs musicians and visual artists with doctors, dentists and other health advisers who donate their services through a pop-up clinic. Joe Concra, a painter who helped start the festival three years ago in Kingston, N.Y., describes the exchange of art for health treatment as a barter system that recalls a time before co-pays and H.M.O.’s.

New York Times

Wait, isn't that exactly what Nancy Pelosi said would be covered by ObamaCare?

Yes, she did.

“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”

- Nancy Pelosi, May 12, 2010

"The creative economy" is a polite way of saying you have no job and no money to pay your bills, much like Democrat Underground refers to itself as the reality-based community.

[obumazombie]

They are more destructive than creative from what I can see.

[Dori]

They are more destructive than creative from what I can see.

What about calpig's erotica poetry?

[Bad Dog]

What about calpig's erotica poetry?

I would think that should score her a lobotomy at least.  I'll chip in.

[Dori]

I would think that should score her a lobotomy at least.  I'll chip in.

I was thinking more like a face lift and a make over.

[DumbAss Tanker]

"The creative economy" is a polite way of saying you have no job and no money to pay your bills, much like Democrat Underground refers to itself as the reality-based community.

While that's not really a fair shot, Pelosi had to have been on drugs (Even more powerful ones than usual) when she said that nonsense.  There is no connection whatsoever between having an unpredictable income due to your work being in performing or visual arts, or any other long-delays-between-variable-paydays kind of work and the ability to obtain insurance...and to the extent any connection could be made, it would all be to the disadvantage of ACA since these are the folks who would intentionally buy only the kind of insurance they were most likely to need, rather than one with a minimum premium based on every chronic or genetic disease and every possible condition known to either sex at any stage in their lives in a single unified price point.