Because health care is
a local service and the availability of affordable, quality health i The AHIRC database was created in 1998 by The Actors’ Fund of America, with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, as a health insurance resource for artists and people in the entertainment industry. Since then, with support from The Commonwealth Fund, it has expanded to include resources for the self-employed, low-income workers, the under-insured, the uninsured who require medical care and many other groups. With the most recent grant from The Commonwealth Fund, six graduate students, mentored by public health policy analysts and coordinated by an Actors' Fund staff member, are currently participating in a year-long program to research additional resources and add them to the AHIRC website. The participating universities are:
You
can help us in this effort to establish a central, reliable and
comprehensive source of
health insurance and health access information, available to everyone
without charge, by submitting additional resources and reporting on current
listings in the boxes located in the lower right column on each state’s main page.
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