We are very excited to launch a new section of our website today: Health Care Resources. This page connects our members with exciting companies that are harnessing technology to make your health care and prescriptions more accessible and affordable.
Fractured Atlas now has partnerships with GoodRx and One Medical Group, two of the most forward-thinking health [...]
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Tags: health insurance, healthcare, kudos
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As any member of Fractured Atlas can tell you, we’re huge believers in harnessing technology to make things simpler, cheaper, and more pleasurable. A number of forward-thinking companies have been applying the same principle to health care, and we’re making an effort to highlight them on our blog. Since no one can feel great about [...]
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Two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act the forecast for the future health insurance landscape is unclear. The media is, unsurprisingly, awash in commentary but for solid background the SCOTUS blog has a down-to-earth summary of the proceedings, and our own Adam Huttler discusses the importance of this victory for the [...]
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Tags: health insurance, wonkishness
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Fractured Atlas has campaigned tirelessly to make benefits like health insurance available to artists and other creative entrepreneurs. So we couldn’t help but notice this blog post by Gary Shapiro, President of the Consumer Electronics Association, attacking House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi for promoting the idea that artists should have access to affordable health insurance.
The [...]
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Tags: health insurance, politics, wonkishness
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We’d like to introduce our two newest additions to our pocket guide series: The Artists’ Guide to Health Reform and The Artists’ Guide to Health Insurance.
The Artists’ Guide to Health Reform provides a general overview of the new healthcare law. If you’ve overwhelmed by all the media on health reform and you’re still unsure of [...]
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There’s been some heated debate lately on whether the new healthcare law is unconstitutional. The controversy is focused on a single component of the law: the individual mandate (i.e. the requirement for everyone to buy health insurance).
This is controversial not because it is a mandate, per se. After all, plenty of uncontroversial legal mandates already [...]
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Tags: health insurance, healthcare, politics
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A significant part of my job at Fractured Atlas revolves around thinking of terrible things that could happen to an artist and trying to figure out either 1) how to insure them (see the Pocket Guides to Insurance for the Arts) or 2) how to educate about them (see my disaster planning blog post). [...]
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Tags: disaster, health insurance, liability insurance, travel
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Healthcare is back in the news as Republicans and Democrats fight over what reform will actually look like.
But a fair amount of the law has already come into effect; the rest will be phased in gradually over the next several years with the majority implemented in 2014. Here’s some of what you already have:
No lifetime limits [...]
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Consultant and choreographer Matthew Keefe of Meadowroad Arts Services is an all-purpose dance professional. From his days dancing with companies like the Louisville Ballet to his current service on the Dance/USA Board of Trustees, he’s done it all. His professional history includes dance, choreography, company, stage and production management to name a few highlights. We [...]
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Tags: choreography, dance, fiscal sponsorship, health insurance, member profile
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Adam Frank creates commercial products and public art that encourage us to see in new ways. Painting with light, he makes environmental installations accessible to people in all walks of life. His product line extends his artistic vision, and his Lumen oil lamp is one of the MoMA store’s best selling items. We spoke with [...]
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Tags: health insurance, liability insurance, lighting design, member profile, public art
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