Freelancers Vs. ObamaCare

Forbes reports:

Sara Horowitz won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award for her work creating the Freelancers Union, a loose affiliation of 130,000 creative workers who pool together to buy health insurance and retirement funds. She has the kind of liberal credentials that got her invited to the White House in June for the launch of its new office of Social Innovation.

But now she is furious at the White House. She worries that health reform will disrupt the group she's spent years building.

Her health plan is designed specifically for independent photographers, designers and writers who are not full-time employees of a company. Yet the health reform bills in Congress don't recognize this kind of specialized coverage.

Instead, the bill passed by the House of Representatives would force all insurance companies to offer plans rubber-stamped by federal regulators. These plans will have to accept anyone who applies and offer a standardized rate and a standard menu of covered treatments. That could make coverage offered by the Freelancers Union much more expensive to its members.

The same jerks that run Medicare will tell you what can be in your health plan.