Finally, Affordable Prescriptions for Freelance Creatives (or Anyone) Without Insurance

There’s a new way to get medications as an uninsured freelancer and it’s amazing

I don’t love the pharmaceutical industry, especially in America. We’re an over-prescribed nation, poisoned by our own pill obsession. Sure. But, the insurance industry on whose back pharmaceuticals barnacle themselves is, maybe, even worse. I’m one of the unlucky few who, in order to have a career in my chosen field (writing—hello, dear reader) I am forced to go it alone as a lowly contractor, deprived of benefits most professionals view as table stakes, but are exotic to me: a predictable schedule, paid time off, and health insurance.

(Remind me to write an article about how the promise of the freelancer’s dream is mostly a lie.)

Living fast and loose

Ergo, working freelance means I feel I must forgo health insurance. Yes, it’s my choice, but being a writer isn’t. Writing my calling and the only way to make a decent living (so far) is to do it like this.

The promise of the freelancer’s dream is mostly a lie.

Sure, I can sign up for whatever solo health insurance plan I want, but the costs associated with the plans offered are, to use a technical term, bonkers. Even subsidized plans like so-called Obama-care, or the state-run marketplace here, in my home…