Alex Maiolo is an expert on this subject, and makes himself available to advise musicians through the Health Insurance Navigation Tool (HINT), set up by the Future of Music Coalition. (If Sweet Relief is a musician’s last resort, HINT should really be one’s first.) Maiolo is not only a professional insurance agent (property & casualty… he’s licensed for health insurance but is by no means a health insurance salesman, nor does HINT sell anything or receive kickbacks or anything at all like that), he’s a musician, too. He plays in two bands, and knows what it’s like to be lost in the shuffle.