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Mar 18, 2021
During the push for health care reform, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to visualize “an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.” But how, exactly, that might happen was unclear. Just days earlier, Pelosi had said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
As it happens, a panel convened at the Future of Music Coalition D.C. Policy Day conference at the New America Foundation on Tuesday to answer whether artists could in fact finally quit their day jobs now that health care reform has passed. The panel’s answer: We still have to find out what’s in the bill.