Maybe SFWA should be joining with the screen writers and romance writers to produce a large enough writers group that it would be "profitable" -- so they could get reasonable policies.
No, we tried that; SFWA and RWA and MWA and HWA and whatever acronymn the Western writers use, and Sisters in Crime and I forget who-all -- all those groups piggy-backed on the NWU to make a big enough "group" to get some access to affordable (for some value of "affordable") health insurance to their members. It worked for awhile. Then the rules changed specifically to make such "umbrella" groups impossible.
Honest to ghod, I spent a lot of time and did a lot of research, first as SFWA's Executive Director, then as President, trying to figure out A Way, SOME Way to get affordable health insurance to writers. If it's out there, it's hiding 'way down in a canyon somewhere...
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No, we tried that; SFWA and RWA and MWA and HWA and whatever acronymn the Western writers use, and Sisters in Crime and I forget who-all -- all those groups piggy-backed on the NWU to make a big enough "group" to get some access to affordable (for some value of "affordable") health insurance to their members. It worked for awhile. Then the rules changed specifically to make such "umbrella" groups impossible.
Honest to ghod, I spent a lot of time and did a lot of research, first as SFWA's Executive Director, then as President, trying to figure out A Way, SOME Way to get affordable health insurance to writers. If it's out there, it's hiding 'way down in a canyon somewhere...