Healthcare is a human right! The future of our industry depends on un-tethering healthcare from employment.
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AEA ForSinglePayer
· petition starter
5 years ago
Paul,
We could not agree more. With a Single Payer System, healthcare will be provided to all people living or working within a specific area. In the case currently being considered, we would be supporting The New York Health Act, but later expanding to all states and the entire US. Please visit our website for more details: https://www.aeaforsinglepayer.org/
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AEA ForSinglePayer
· petition starter
5 years ago
Jack,
Thanks for your comment. We are NOT, in any way, representatives of Actors' Equity Association. We are a group of concerned members that are supporting a resolution from the leadership of the union in support of The New York Health Act and Single Payer systems nationwide. Please consider visiting our webpage for more information. https://www.aeaforsinglepayer.org/
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Edward Hightower
5 years ago
Yes, please.
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Dana Steer
5 years ago
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Even in a good year, only 12-14% of AEA dues-paying members receive coverage through The Equity League Plan. That number is dropping. A single payer system is the ONLY way to cover all Equity members.
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Jack Sippel
5 years ago
It’s Unfathomable that you choose to keep wasting our work insurance week while forcing us to not be able to work. It’s one thing to just up the dues during this time which would have been better than also you choosing to use up all of our weeks known if that there is no way to gain more. Can’t be trusted
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Paul Lincoln
5 years ago
Equity stop stealing healthcare from thousands of members to give to a privileged few. Everyone needs healthcare.
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Erin Joy Swank
5 years ago
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Please continue to make this a national program instead of just NY-centric. (I know you have to start somewhere.) As you create hashtags, please remember the union members OFF stage as well. Thank you for starting something.
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Shanaé Burch
5 years ago
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Every member deserves access to quality health insurance, and this should only be the beginning. We cannot sit idly while the current system ignores the way our industry contributes and further exacerbates the harms of racial capitalism.
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Jenny Hickman
5 years ago
Healthcare for all is the only way forward!
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Keith Michael Pinault
5 years ago
Single payer in any state is a step forward for our union and our country!
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Julian DeGuzman
5 years ago
As long as health care costs, access, affordability, fragmentation and complexity of health insurance are persistent problems, so too will support for single payer. We must do the moral thing and push for this, like Ron Silver did in 1991.
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Buzz Roddy
5 years ago
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The pandemic has put in a stark light how inadequate and deadly the current state of healthcare coverage is in the USA. Covered members of Actors' Equity have the closest to what everyone in the country deserves, but typically only a small percentage of its members are covered, and it is a system based on people ALMOST covering, and failing to do so. There's a better way, but it takes courage and work. Join us!
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Justin Peck
5 years ago
Here’s to healthcare for all!
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Kyle Nudo
5 years ago
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Get health insurance out of union compensation packages, and get more money in working artists’ pockets! Only the most privileged Equity members ever earn health care through work, but every single member deserves access to high quality care.
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PERRY L OJEDA
5 years ago
Proud Member of Actors’ Equity
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Katie Young
5 years ago
Single payer is the only way forward to ensure all equity members, and all artists, have access to the human right that is affordable healthcare.
Healthcare is a human right! The future of our industry depends on un-tethering healthcare from employment.
Paul, We could not agree more. With a Single Payer System, healthcare will be provided to all people living or working within a specific area. In the case currently being considered, we would be supporting The New York Health Act, but later expanding to all states and the entire US. Please visit our website for more details: https://www.aeaforsinglepayer.org/
Jack, Thanks for your comment. We are NOT, in any way, representatives of Actors' Equity Association. We are a group of concerned members that are supporting a resolution from the leadership of the union in support of The New York Health Act and Single Payer systems nationwide. Please consider visiting our webpage for more information. https://www.aeaforsinglepayer.org/
Yes, please.
Even in a good year, only 12-14% of AEA dues-paying members receive coverage through The Equity League Plan. That number is dropping. A single payer system is the ONLY way to cover all Equity members.
It’s Unfathomable that you choose to keep wasting our work insurance week while forcing us to not be able to work. It’s one thing to just up the dues during this time which would have been better than also you choosing to use up all of our weeks known if that there is no way to gain more. Can’t be trusted
Equity stop stealing healthcare from thousands of members to give to a privileged few. Everyone needs healthcare.
Please continue to make this a national program instead of just NY-centric. (I know you have to start somewhere.) As you create hashtags, please remember the union members OFF stage as well. Thank you for starting something.
Every member deserves access to quality health insurance, and this should only be the beginning. We cannot sit idly while the current system ignores the way our industry contributes and further exacerbates the harms of racial capitalism.
Healthcare for all is the only way forward!
Single payer in any state is a step forward for our union and our country!
As long as health care costs, access, affordability, fragmentation and complexity of health insurance are persistent problems, so too will support for single payer. We must do the moral thing and push for this, like Ron Silver did in 1991.
The pandemic has put in a stark light how inadequate and deadly the current state of healthcare coverage is in the USA. Covered members of Actors' Equity have the closest to what everyone in the country deserves, but typically only a small percentage of its members are covered, and it is a system based on people ALMOST covering, and failing to do so. There's a better way, but it takes courage and work. Join us!
Here’s to healthcare for all!
Get health insurance out of union compensation packages, and get more money in working artists’ pockets! Only the most privileged Equity members ever earn health care through work, but every single member deserves access to high quality care.
Proud Member of Actors’ Equity
Single payer is the only way forward to ensure all equity members, and all artists, have access to the human right that is affordable healthcare.
Healthcare is a human right