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Insurance Linked to Employment. Company Folded in 2002. Scammed by "Limited Benefits" Company
(Interview August 2011. Oil in linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Insurance tethered to employment can cause so much stress. Barb was...
Young, Uninsured, and Sick (before the Affordable Care Act)
(Interview 6/2011. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Sometimes people fall off without actually falling out. I interviewed...
The Insurance Congress Gets
(Request for interview ignored January 2011. Oil on linen 40 ins. x 30 ins.) I do not intend to lampoon my sitters with art, a different...
Divorce Meant Losing Her Health Insurance (before the Affordable Care Act)
(Interview 9/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins. ) Update 2021 About half the US population gets their health insurance through their...
Musician, Part-Time Sports Coach without Job-Based Insurance. Uninsured in 2010.
(Interview 5/2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I stalked this one trying to locate her. She has a formidable online...
Federal & State Agencies Provide Services to help Man with Bipolar Disorder Keep his Life Intact
(Interview 11/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I have no way of getting in touch with this subject. I can't ask how...
College Graduate,Family Support, the Individual Market (before healthcare reform), Job with Benefits
(Interview 11/ 2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I remember this subject telling me she wasn't sure the portraits looked...
Musician, Songwriter, Band Manager, age 25
(Interview 4/2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Chrissy Tashjian is a singer/songwriter/guitarist for Thin Lips, a punk...
Disabled Veteran of United States Coast Guard uses Tricare
(Interview 11/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 "I have been trying to respond to you sooner. The fact is I didn’t...
Small Business Owner Struggles with Group Insurance before the Affordable Care Act
(Interview 2009. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) The original 2009 portrait is below. I had to correct things about the original...
The Humiliation of Going to the Emergency Room Uninsured.
(Interview 1/ 2011. Oil on linen 40 ins x 30 ins.) I repainted this subject in 2022. She's younger in this latest version. And I like the...
Laid-off Lab Technician. Joined the Other 48.6 Million Uninsured in 2010 (before healthcare reform)
(Interview 9/2010. Oil on linen 40 ins. x 30 ins. ) Update 2021 Some paintings paint themselves. This is one of them. Sometimes the paint...
Husband's Employer-Based Insurance Ended. Joann Left Uninsured, Untreated, Nearly Blind in One Eye
(Interview 2/2011. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Joann died in 2021 from congestive heart failure. She was 75. Her...
Self-Employed, Uninsured and No Way to Get Health Insurance (Before the Affordable Care Act)
(Interview 3/2010. Oil on canvas 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) created a safety net for people like...
Married Friend for his Health Benefits.(Affordable Care Act not yet law)
(Interview 2/2011. Acrylic on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I thought I had seen everything. In 2011 I was still naive. My dismay...
Laid-off. Lost Health Insurance. No Way to Treat Heart Condition until Affordable Care Act
(Interview 10/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins. ) Update 2021 I've reviewed all Art As Social Inquiry's stories for this website....
Uninsured, Unchecked Ulcerated Mole, Malignant Melanoma, Returned to Canadian Healthcare Too Late
(Interview w/ family 6/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x30 ins.) UPDATE 2021 One thing emerges from all the 2021 death portrait story...
Pregnant Young Woman. No Access to Prenatal Care. Dead at 24.
(Interview w/ family 11/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Jenny died in 2009. The Affordable Care Act had not yet become...
Cancer History. Uninsurable on the Individual Market before the Affordable Care Act
(Interview 6/2009. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 My sweet friend died in May 2012. Rest in peace, Nick. Forgive me....
Subject Entered a Lottery for Health Insurance. 47,000 Winners. Over 400,000 on Waiting List
(Interview August 2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 AdultBasic was part of the healthcare mishmash in Pennsylvania from...
My Abortion Story
(oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) I had an abortion. I’m sharing my story to bear witness for all the women who have ever had to make...
Fell off Subsidy Cliff (before the American Rescue Plan ended it -- temporarily)
(Interview April 2021) (oil on canvas, 48” x 48”) Update 2022 This portrait consists of 2 paintings. One stays in the Art As Social...
Enough
(oil, acrylic on canvas, 48 ins. x 60 ins.) “Enough” hangs upside down until President Trump no longer occupies the White House. Once...
Big World, Small Man
(oil on canvas, 36 ins. x 72 ins.) This painting “Big World Small Man” is my response to Donald Trump as President of the United States...
Nuclear Trump
(oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) This painting is a thank you to Republican heroes, both high profile public servants and citizen...
I'm With Her
(30 ins. x 40 ins., oil on canvas) Hillary Clinton faced Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election. She won the popular vote but...
Corey
(Oil on canvas, 72 ins. x 36 ins.) (Interview with Corey’s parents, 4/ 2014) Update 2021 I was saddened to see that a lot of the links...
Dina Nina
(oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) (Interview 5/2015) Artist’s Note (2015) Dina Nina Martinez is a transgender woman. Her journey to...
Nam. Can We Stop Now?
(47 ins. x 46 ins., acrylic on paper ) This painting is about examining/feeling the past so we are free to make peace in the present. We...
"I went into hemorrhagic shock in the ambulance."
(oil on canvas , 36 ins. x 72 ins.) (Interview 8/2015) 2021 Update Alec went on to cofound the Denver Justice Project, " a coalition...
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