[DAC] Fwd: [Artfound-list] Thank you to all who took action and a reminder

[Donna Penn]

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> From: News from the Artists Foundation <artfound- 
> list at artistsfoundation.org>
> Date: April 15, 2007 8:49:17 PM EDT
> To: artfound-list at artistsfoundation.org
> Subject: [Artfound-list] Thank you to all who took action and a  
> reminder
>
> News from the Artists Foundation
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> Dear Massachusetts Artists and supporters of Artists,
>
>
> Thank you to all who took the time to email the Governor on the key  
> issue of
> affordability in regard to health care and health insurance.  Your  
> taking
> action had a clear and positive impact!
>
>
> Last Thursday, April 12th, the Board of the Commonwealth Health  
> Insurance
> Connector Authority voted on an affordability schedule for the  
> individual
> mandate. In that vote, they decided what the draft affordability  
> regulations and
> schedule are. In other words they set the proposed criteria for  
> deciding which
> Massachusetts residents will and will not be penalized for not  
> purchasing health
> insurance.
>
> The draft regulations and schedule are progressive (i.e. pretty  
> fair and
> realistic) and there will also be a "generous and constructive  
> process for
> appealing the applicability of the affordability schedule in light  
> of an individual's
> circumstance"  (quoted from the Connector Authority's April 11th press
> release)
>
>  Public hearings on these draft regulations are to be held in May  
> and the AF
> will be at those hearings.  The draft criteria and schedule will be  
> posted
> soon on:   www.healthcareforartists.org
>
> Please note that the AF is actively involved in discussions to  
> ensure that
> artists, the self-employed, and small business owners are not in  
> any way
> negatively impacted by this proposed criteria.
>
> ALSO a reminder that the AF will be presenting at two health care  
> reform
> forums this Wednesday. Both are free and open to the public.
>
> See Below
>
> ____________________________________________
>
>
>
> Wednesday, April 18
>
>
> Massachusetts College of Art, Tower Auditorium
>
>
> 621 Huntington Avenue
>
>
> Boston
>
>
> 3:00 - 5:00 pm – employers and human resource managers
>
>
> 6:00 - 8:00 pm – general session
>
>
>
> Enacted in April 2006, the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law is  
> designed
> to provide health insurance to every man, woman and child in the  
> Commonwealth.
> As an employer and a citizen of the Commonwealth, there are health  
> insurance
> requirements you must meet by December 31, 2007.
>
>
> Presented by the Arts Health Care Coalition:  the Massachusetts Joint
> Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development, Massachusetts  
> Cultural Council,
> MAASH, Artist Foundation, and ArtistLink. The Coalition was formed  
> to connect
> the cultural community with good information on the benefits and
> responsibilities that the new law creates for individual artists  
> and cultural organizations
> and their employees.
>
>
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Donna Penn
See our fine art and notecard website at www.krausedesigninc.com
For info on the Dorchester Arts Collaborative & Dorchester Open  
Studios, see: www.thedac.org


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