This just in ...

[kinzel]

Sigh ...

I do wish the world and writers were more in tune...

as mentioned elsewhere in the blogosphere:

Steven Brust is a a bind, in part due to some bills that need paying; as I understand it a hospital has put a lien on his house.

This link is to a donate button http://dreamcafe.com/donate.html ... at the top of that page you should also find a "log" which, reading backwards, may provide details of interest.

So, anyone out there want (and know how) to start a Writers and Artists Insurance Cooperative? Insurance is the reason Sharon is currently distracted by a "real job" instead of writing full time here at the Catfarm and Confusion Factory.

Comments

[anghara.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem to be an option AT ALL for people who live outside a limited number of states.

this whole business of making insurance "mandatory - like they're doing in, what was it, Massachusetts or Connecticut, I forget - that's all very well, but if you couldn't afford it BEFORE it became mandatory I don't see how they expect that to change just because they said you have to have it. If they at least subsidised - and pretty heavily at that - it would be a different matter.

I have "catastrophic" health insurance, with a great honking deductible before it kicks in. And I just got wod they're increasing premiums for that in january, by 21%. That's vicious. I don't know how long I'll be able to afford even this.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Yah. Try buying it from scratch when your age is 60.