The current SAG-AFTRA strike has illuminated how the uncertainty of the industry leads to actors losing their health insurance or not qualifying at all in any given year:
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West Hills, CA - July 24: Brooklyn McLinn, an actor and SAG-AFTRA member, rests on a chair with a picture of him from college seen right at his home on Monday, July 24, 2023 in West Hills, CA. He has survived three heart attacks, a stroke and a heart transplant. At one point he was on the verge of losing his SAG-AFTRA health insurance because he didn’t make enough money to qualify for it.
His second heart attack knocked him to floor of his kitchen in 2020 while he was on the phone with his mother. McLinn said he kept pausing during the conversation because he felt himself getting increasingly hot. When his mom suggested he sit down he suddenly felt like “somebody had dumped a bucket of water on me” and he started sweating profusely. He didn’t think he was having a heart attack but he felt his head become heavy with sleepiness as his mother called 911.
Nearly a year after he got out of the hospital, McLinn received a letter from the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan stating that his coverage was running out at the end of the month. When McLinn was on the verge of losing his health insurance he called the plan’s membership phone number immediately. He needed the insurance to continue getting his medication that helped prevent his body from rejecting his new heart. He was also cleared to go back to work.
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