Like most people in the U.S. I have friends and family with limited access to health care due to the broken system which either ignores or actively punishes entrepreneurs, freelancers and small businesses, the elderly and the poor. This effects artists especially since most are freelancers. Based on his own near fatal experience and those of his friends, Stephen King has founded a new charitable organization called The Haven Foundation which hopes to help freelancers with catastrophic injuries or illness make it through. It's a tax deductible charity and worth it to support those who have spent their lives make us laugh and cry and comforting us through those long nights with their work. Consider making a donation this holiday season.
Thanks to Teresa Nielsen Hayden for bringing this to my attention with her blog Making Light.
Posted by bill at December 5, 2007 09:54 AM