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U.S. Freelance Workforce, Now 56.7M People, Grew 3.7M Since 2014
- Apocryphon 8y agoBetcha there'd be even more freelancers and entrepreneurs if there was a reliable universal healthcare system.
- japhyr 8y agoAbsolutely. I'm planning to move into full-time freelancing work next year, and health care is the most unsettling part of this move. It's the most unpredictable aspect of moving into a full-time freelancing role.
- EugeneOZ 8y agoCould you please explain what is the problem? (No sarcasm intended) I'm freelancer full-time, I pay monthly to my insurance company and use healthcare services I need. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
- kodablah 8y agoThere are so many fewer options when you're not a larger company with group healthcare buying power. A middle class family of 4, to get the worst healthcare available on the marketplace (i.e. 7k deductible/max per person, very limited doctors) may pay 1300/mo from what I've seen (more than doubled from a couple years ago). Large employer subsidized healthcare from places like Aetna give better rates but don't offer individual plans ([0] "we don't offer individual health plans at this time"). 0 - https://www.aetna.com/individuals-families/buy-health-insurance-from-aetna.html https://www.aetna.com/individuals-families/buy-health-insura...
- japhyr 8y ago> more than doubled from a couple years ago Yes, this is the most unsettling part. Even if we can afford to pay our own healthcare now, it's very difficult to predict how long we'll be able to.
- EugeneOZ 8y agoLooks like it's just the USA issue :) 360 euros per month for family of 4 is enough to have perfect healthcare in Spain. -- thanks for replies to all... It's pretty impressive and prices are really, really high.
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- corybrown 8y agoNot OP, but have had to buy insurance as a freelancer before. Do you have a family? Health insurance prices are far, far higher if you have a family. The type of coverage you can by as an individual is also inferior to those you get access to at large companies, so it can be harder to get in-network coverage.
- darzu 8y agoIf you or your dependents have any medical complications or are something other than young and healthy, the costs can increase drastically. Also employers often provide a lot of resources via HR and FAQ websites for navigating health care related topics. And I think there is safety in numbers so to speak. Insurance companies don't care at all if they loose one customer. They care a lot if they loose a big contract with a big company. Maybe they'll decide you provided false information in one of their 1,000 forms and thus will deny coverage when you desperately need it. They're less likely to pull that sort of crap if you can complain to your employer and have them apply pressure. Put simply: there's little incentive for health insurance companies to provide good service to individuals; there's lot of incentive to provide good coverage to company employees.
- guntars 8y agoIf that really is the problem then you, as a freelancer, can hire a company to navigate and negotiate the health care plans for you and other freelancers as a pool and get the same quality and discounts as you would in a large corporation.
- darzu 8y agoDo these companies exist? Can you recommend any? But even so, they'll be a middle-man and they'll try to take as much profit from the group discounts they get instead of passing those savings on. An employer doesn't have an incentive to make profit there.
- guntars 8y agoI don't know, do they? If they do, then your premise is correct and there's enough benefit in negotiating in groups that it's worthwhile. If there aren't, then it's either a) the "economist sees a 20 on the ground and immediately assumes it's fake because someone else would have picked it up otherwise" or b) your premise is wrong and having a large HR department doesn't make a difference in your plan costs and pricing. The real answer is that they do exist. I used Oscar for a year and their plans were actually by either United Healthcare or Aetna (I don't remember anymore) and the premiums were less and the quality was identical to what I had through a company provided insurance later. There's also Justworks that does something similar, though they're more of a full HR service provider.
- swatcoder 8y ago1. Coverage is more expensive for lesser benefits. 2. Year-over-year changes to costs and benefits are less predictable. 2b. Continuity of coverage may itself be at risk with pre-existing conditions returning to the political debate. If you have basic, predictable medical costs — and believe that you will stay in that bucket — these concerns may not be very relevant to you. But a lot of people don’t fall in that bucket or aren’t confident that they’ll stay there. For these people, this adds a big risk to venturing out as an entrepreneur or freelancer. A wholly privatized, largely deregulated health care market is toxic to entrepreneurialism because of these risks.
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- sbov 8y ago> 2b. Continuity of coverage may itself be at risk with pre-existing conditions returning to the political debate. This reminds me, when I was in college I had a pretty bad accident, but I had some college provided health care plan my parents paid for that covered it. Even after being employed and having employer health care, I kept renewing it incase I had a longer term issue related to the accident that my new insurance wouldn't cover due to it being pre-existing. In particular, I had to get a rod inserted into my leg, and thought if I had a problem with it down the line, it might get denied by my new insurer.
- maerF0x0 8y ago> A wholly privatized, largely deregulated health care market is toxic to entrepreneurialism because of these risks. Is there any proof of this? What makes a country "Entrepreneurial"?
- antoineMoPa 8y agoI'd be more enclined to start a buisness here in Canada, since I know that even if I fuck up financially, I can still get free healthcare.
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- rb808 8y agoOne issue is you have to pay a monthly. In most other countries you wouldn't have to do this, so you dont have to worry if you have a slow month, or no work at all.
- techbubble 8y agoI agree. I have been independent for almost two decades and paid for my family’s health insurance all that time. If you factor in the cost in your planning, there isn’t any reason for it to be a big deal. At least no more than housing, or car insurance or any of the basic, predictable expenses.
- whb07 8y agoWhat’s the state of freelance and entrepreneurship in countries where there is a socialized healthcare system? I think this would be easy to look up for places like Canada, UK, France etc?
- Apocryphon 8y agoI'm not talking about countries that have a more socialized, or social democratic, or even outright socialist system. I'm imagining the U.S. in its free enterprise self-made glory with stronger social safety nets, at least for the net most pressingly attached to employment status.
- wprapido 8y agoFree enterprise coupled with a decent safety net is exactly what those countries you Americans deem Socialist are like. On top, they rank higher than the US in terms of economic freedoms, while some got more self made billionaires per capita than the US. Freelancing? It varies greatly country by country. Easy and cheap in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia. Difficult and expensive in Germany. Moderate in Sweden and Canada. Freelancing population is growing globally.
- twblalock 8y agoSocial democracies are pretty much capitalist economies with better social safety nets and somewhat higher taxes than the US -- and you can't get a better safety net without increasing taxes to pay for it. Despite the word "socialism", most socialist and social-democratic political parties in Europe are not trying to replace the market economy with socialized ownership of the means of production.
- rb808 8y agoUsually in Europe/Japan/Australia/Canada there are fewer entrepreneurs. Maybe its because a wider safety net and narrower differences between rich and poor makes the leap to start a business less rewarding and worthwhile. Maybe people are less comfortable with taking risks.
- buboard 8y agoHow is that going to help? It's the cost of healthcare that matters, not the universal system. Unless you mean that salaried workers should foot the bill for freelancers who have unpredictable income streams. That is neither sustainable nor fair. Universal systems in fact can be a hindrance to freelancers. They are expensive, making it hard to make the first step, and the result is people go illegal or underreport their income. Freelancers in EU: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/4187653/7825811/IMG+graph+news+self+employment.png/4433a6df-aa39-4c12-970e-57c67219936c?t=1504598646238 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/4187653/7825811/IMG+... Shadow economy in EU: https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/1280x868/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fniallmccarthy%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F02%2F20170208_Shadow_Economies.jpg https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/1280x868/https%3A%2F%2Fbl...
- bdcravens 8y agoYou say that like employment guarantees health care; ACA only applies to employers with > 50 employees.
- kodablah 8y agoMost freelancers/entrepreneurs would be helped by simply returning to pre-ACA options.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoAnd the old and sick would be harmed. Americans really need to decide if people's medical costs should be shared, or if it's every man for himself.
- kodablah 8y agoIt's not that binary. Strict rules on insurers essentially means shared. Shared by law requires trust in government spending, something there is little of and the spending is volatile per cycle.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoIt is binary. Pre-ACA options might have been cheaper because sick people weren't in the pool. If you want to cover old and sick people, then you have to pay more. Doesn't matter if it's taxpayers paying or taxpayers paying via insurance premiums, it has to come out of someone's pocket.
- kodablah 8y agoMost of that is not true if you recognize costs are as much of a problem as distribution. When you only target recipients/insurers/payers instead of the providers with these rules, it sure can seem like the only option is to have most people pay more. And then treating that as the only way, stating it as fact, and making the discussion binary limits true solutions to these problems from even being discussed.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoInsurance premiums when people with pre-existing conditions were not covered are lower than when people with pre-existing conditions are forced to be covered. That statement would be true no matter how much providers are getting paid. Lack of supply of providers or fraudulent billing by providers is a separate cause of increased insurance premiums, but I don't see what ACA has to do that, and if anything, healthcare spending increases are slowing down since the passage of ACA, and premiums are even decreasing in many parts of the country. My original response was to your claim that freelancers were better off in pre-ACA times, to which I wanted to point out that was only because people with pre-existing conditions were denied insurance. Nothing in ACA has caused the amount paid to providers to increase.
- downrightmike 8y agoUniversal healthcare would actually make it much more affordable for employers to hire people too. So they could hire more people and maybe even pay them more.
- crisdux 8y agoHow are you so sure of this? I don't think we have conclusive evidence of this. It depends on a bunch of factors, among them is what government revenue would fund it.
- mjevans 8y agoThank you for wording this correctly. There's not actually /insurance/ except for in the largest sense; it's more about health cost payment, cost control, and how badly individuals can be excluded or directly charged if coverage isn't required for all at the same input rate. I am all for requiring everyone to be part of the same single coverage pool so that the costs of medical coverage in society are more fairly distributed across all. In that respect I also support /broad/ and /generic/ taxes on things that are known to be unhealthy; such as specific addictive recreational drugs. (For example, don't tax only soda, but it's OK to tax all drinks that aren't water.)
- switch007 8y ago56M is 17% of the population! That's way higher than I would have guessed. The UK — with its degrading universal healthcare — is at roughly 3%. https://www.consultancy.uk/news/18474/uk-has-2-million-freelancers-and-the-number-will-continue-to-rise https://www.consultancy.uk/news/18474/uk-has-2-million-freel...
- switch007 8y agoEDIT: OUR degrading healthcare* Don't downvote thinking I'm a clueless foreigner...
- cabaalis 8y agoOfftopic from your post for a couple paragraphs: I push back against my fellow conservatives who view things like basic living income a "socialist" idea. It seems to me that if people have more money in their pocket, they will buy more--good for capitalism. Also, if they have at least a minimal safety net and are not endangering their family, home, and bellies they will seek out work that is more fulfilling to them and therefore perform better. Maybe it's because I work in the healthcare industry, but I don't see universal healthcare as having the same safety-net effect. Other than stabilizing prices, it would only be a situation where the healthy support the sick. That is not inherently a bad thing, but needs to be recognized that way.
- ianleeclark 8y ago> I don't see universal healthcare as having the same safety-net effect. Why not? People work shit jobs solely for health insurance. People need healthcare and will do demeaning, exploitative things to get it. We should aim to decrease exploitation of people and having something along the lines of Medicare for all or single payer insurance would accomplish that goal. > Other than stabilizing prices, it would only be a situation where the healthy support the sick. Sounds like insurance. Mutual aid ought be a founding principle of any society.
- woodpanel 8y ago> Mutual aid ought be a founding principle of any society. The fact that the US has the same principles already in place (MedicAid, MediCare, veterans...) shows that it is not a matter of your society's helpfulness but a matter of your society's institutions that block reform out of self-interest.
- MechanicalTwerk 8y agoAt least health insurance is a problem you can solve with money. There are going to be a lot harder problems that you can't directly solve with money as a freelancer/entrepreneur. If health insurance is your main barrier to entry then you're probably not cut out for it to begin with.
- maerF0x0 8y agoTo make the discourse more useful, could you give some examples of what you believe to be harder problems and why they're harder than health insurance (ie, why cant they too be solved with money, and why is money such an "easy" solution?)
- MechanicalTwerk 8y agoFair. Money is an easy solution because you can get a job and make money. And you can live below your means and build a savings. And if you choose to freelance or start a business at some point you can use that savings to get yourself started. As far as hard vs easy problems, health insurance is relatively easy because, for the most part, if you buy a reputable health insurance plan you're good. Obviously there's horror stories of people not getting the coverage they believe they paid for but generally it works as advertised. An example of a more difficult problem would be finding clients/customers. Even though you can pay money for leads/ads/content writers etc. you are not guaranteed a good client or customer. You can't directly pay for a good client or customer. You can directly pay for things that are likely to lead to good clients or customers but you are still going to have to work. You can basically sign up for health insurance online and as long as you pay the bill there's no work involved. If you're setting out to WORK for yourself, and something that takes no work is stopping you, you don't really have the right attitude.
- selestify 8y agoThis assumed that it is easy to get a job that pays enough above living expenses for the leftover money to be enough for health insurance. If getting such a job is hard, I'd argue that the money that ensues from said job would be hard too.
- matchagaucho 8y agoWhile we pay above average for top tier talent on Upwork, it still makes me wonder how Freelancers cover their healthcare costs (if at all?). The Freelancer Union, mentioned in the article, seems like a good start. Could they collectively pool funds to get high-deductible coverage for ~$200 per month?
- hkai 8y agoWhy do you think insurance costs is a big deal? At age 33, I pay 30 USD per month for 100% coverage of any illness, up to 30,000 USD per year, which is enough even for cancer. That's in Hong Kong. The only problem is American prices. Socialized healthcare is not needed as long as prices are reasonable. If I was an American I'd probably just fly to Thailand for any serious health issues because the cost of flight ticket plus treatment would be significantly less than in the US.
- warent 8y agoSimply because insurance corporations have shareholders to serve. There's just no incentive for insurers to lower prices. It's the nature of corporations to maximize profit. That can be a good thing, but not when health and lives are at stake, which is something that lower class conservatives don't understand the economics of, and upper class business owners profit off of. It's an ugly emergent property of the system we've built. > "If I was an American I'd probably just fly to Thailand for any serious health issues because the cost of flight ticket plus treatment would be significantly less than in the US." What you're describing is called "medical tourism" and it is slowly becoming more popular in the USA but still a fairly niche and underground idea.
- bdcravens 8y agoFor most people, that may work, but for many with chronic conditions, most of their cost is medicine to maintain their health, not treatment. (and some medicines could blow through that $30k cap quickly)
- matchagaucho 8y agoThe greatest medical expenses tend to be unplanned trauma and emergency room visits. Agreed that medical tourism for general procedures is a great value for many Americans that can afford this alternative.
- codegeek 8y agoGlad to see this as a top comment. So frikin true in the USA. When I started my freelance/contracting business, the first thing that came to mind was "oh shit, how will I manage Health Insurance". The fear factor is huge.
- Waterluvian 8y agoI have made career moves that I couldn't have made if my employment was the source of my family's healthcare. When it comes to actual "freedoms" this is a big one. As a single income parent, I'd probably not be seeking out employment that I was passionate about, and would stick with what's safe.
- deyan 8y agoFor those curious, the methodology is on slide 3 here: https://www.slideshare.net/upwork/freelancing-in-america-2018-120288770/1 https://www.slideshare.net/upwork/freelancing-in-america-201... I am genuinely surprised. 7% in 5 years is really not that much, especially given the constant media articles talking about the massive proliferation of the "gig economy." Yet another example of the difference between reality and reporting.
- drawkbox 8y agoTrue, but that trickle growth over time has led to a large chunk of the US who are freelancing. > "More than one in three (35%) Americans freelanced this year." 1/3 of the country freelancing at some point is massive, especially since the internet is really only about 2 decades old in terms of being able to, including the late 90s. That is a huge market and probably going to end up 1/2 or 2/3 of the country over the next decade [1]. Plus, younger people are freelancing more so a massive growth wave is coming to freelancing: 16-21 is at 47%, 22-34 is at 43%, 35-44 is at 35%, 45-54 is 28% and 55+ is 28% [2] [1] https://www.upwork.com/press/2017/10/17/freelancing-in-america-2017/ https://www.upwork.com/press/2017/10/17/freelancing-in-ameri... [2] https://www.statista.com/chart/10981/freelancers-in-america/ https://www.statista.com/chart/10981/freelancers-in-america/
- refurb 8y agoPeople can hold a fully time job and freelance on the side.
- walshemj 8y agoNot with most developed countries employment laws and standard employment contracts with out their employers permission.
- ghaff 8y agoFreelancing in the sense of filing a 1099-MISC is quite common. If you're a landlord, you'll be filing a 1099-MISC Essentially any royalties, 1099-MISC Have any sort of side business even if wholly unrelated to your job, 1099-MISC. You get into any actual consulting work and, yes, it becomes more problematic with many companies, but still many do it. I've very much been a full-time employee for essentially all of my career, and I've probably filed 1099-MISCs most years for one thing or another even without having been a landlord.
- mberning 8y agoI'm not buying it. Just today stats came out that there were a record ~150 million employed. No way 1/4-1/3 of those are freelancing. edit: link https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20181102 https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20181102
- adpirz 8y ago> full-time freelancers now make up 28% of freelancers (up 11 points since 2014) Only a little over a quarter of those are ONLY freelancing.
- mberning 8y agoStill seems high to me. Even in the software world I don't run into that many people that purely freelance. Many people moonlight as developers though, so I could see it being true if we looked at it as only part time supplemental income, but that is not how this is worded. Maybe it was just over represented in their sample. Looks like it was only 6k people.
- drawkbox 8y agoIn the software world it is probably higher than the 1 in 10 full-time freelancers [1][2] vs full/part combined of 35% of the total workforce. [1] https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-department-of-labor-numbers-are-misleading/ https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-depa... [2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm
- drawkbox 8y agoAccording to this study [1][2], the fulltime gig/freelance/contractors are at 10-11% and full and part-time combined are at 35% of the total workforce. [1] https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-department-of-labor-numbers-are-misleading/ https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-depa... [2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm
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- mwfunk 8y agoI can't tell if this is good or bad. I tend to think of freelancers as being people who are lucky and successful enough to afford to be freelancers, but in this context it could also mean people who can only find sources of income that don't provide benefits- short term jobs without healthcare. If those numbers are rising, then it's not a good thing. I don't know how to interpret it.
- ilaksh 8y agoI believe it's more of the latter group. I have been a freelancer mainly because I needed to work from home. The vast majority of opportunities that I have seen have been lower pay and of course without benefits. Such as almost all jobs on Upwork. The other side is companies figured out ways to avoid classifying their employees as employees. See Uber for example.
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoPretty bad heading to disaster threshold. No insurance, no safety nets - disability, unemployment, health, no 401k or matching, frequent downtime between gigs or prolonged times without gigs. I would know, I consult now and have been freelancing for some time.
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- ravenstine 8y agoNot too surprising since wages have long been stagnant and fewer people are able to get sustainable careers. Then there's the staggering debt. People are looking for more ways to pay ends meet, and I bet most people in the next 15 years are going to need a side hustle in order to live comfortably and retire.
- bilbo0s 8y ago>and I bet most people in the next 15 years are going to need a side hustle in order to live comfortably and retire... In fairness, a lot of people retiring now are engaging "side-hustles" to make ends meet. I think it's just the reality of the economy right now.
- haskellandchill 8y agoWe could all be working less but instead we’re not because reasons.
- slg 8y agoThose reasons all revolve around the people who already have money wanting more of the money. And considering the HN community is organized around entrepreneurship and wealth generation, most of us are at least complicit in it if not actively fighting to keep it that way.
- ravenstine 8y agoThat's true, people could become more minimalist and work a lot less. Actually, minimalism seems to be a growing trend right now, but I think this has more to do with necessity than minimalism as a philosophy. For me, it's a little of both.
- bilbo0s 8y agoI think that's the case for most people. Especially as we age, healthcare becomes more important. And it's the healthcare that gets a lot of people. (At least that's the case in the US. I don't really know much about other nations and their retirement setups.)
- fgheorghe 8y agoIsnt this what the us is about? Financial freedom. Contracting or freelancing are the first steps in that direction.
- TomK32 8y agoNo, financial freedom is achieved by other means: responsible spending and staying free of debt.
- dreamdu5t 8y agoI would say financial freedom is not having to trade labor to survive. From that perspective, responsible spending doesn't lead to financial freedom, but ownership of capital that pays for living expenses. For example, someone who pays their living expenses by collecting rent from property they own is financially free. A software engineer who has to go to work 9-5 or starve is not financially free, even if they are responsibly spending and free of debt.
- fgheorghe 8y agoMy thoughts exactly. And freelancing can get you there - provided it pays more, and it can teach you how to be less reliant on a monthly paycheck.
- jhabdas 8y ago> 61% of full-time freelancers would consider moving to a different city for a tax break of less than $5,000 Imagine the number willing to move for more than $10,000 power year. Very doable overseas. Then there's the foreign earned income exclusion rule to help matters further.
- diminish 8y agoI failed to get a single project on upwork despite one year of bidding as a JS, Rails dev etc. I've also watched youtube videos and read endless blogs how to get your first project. So -1 here if you've included me.
- adpirz 8y agoI'm curious, I just signed up myself. How many bids did you put out? What's your experience like?
- diminish 8y agoI have tried every possible bid from zero to 10x the average price. I have also prepared custom presentations, documents for my bids. Zero return.
- woogiewonka 8y agoDon't ever present custom presentations or documents without first having some sort of a commitment from the prospect. 1.You are wasting your time 2. You are coming across as desperate By commitment I mean a phone call. The number one mistake I see freelancers make is not schedule a time to talk to the prospect. Calls are amazing because they do a few things: 1. Filter out people who are not serious about their projects (it's either a side project for them and they have not fully dedicated themselves to it, or they are just shopping around for prices) 2. Allow you to sell yourself without trying. This is really easy to do counter to all the advice out there. Just listen. Listen carefully. Sympathize. Be there so they can cry their problems on your shoulder and then offer to relieve that pain by providing an end-to-end solution. I have learned all of this the hard way - presenting free quotes, proposals and all that bs. Only when I stopped doing that and focused more on the networking aspect - talking to the person and understanding their problem - becoming their friend - that I got most projects.
- max0563 8y agoI never had any luck on Upwork either, so I completely dropped it. Those freelancing platforms, imo, are really not great. You won't be able to compete with someone who is willing to do the work for next to nothing. Believe it or not, I have pretty much gotten all of my Freelance work for the last two years from Reddit. A seriously undervalued resource for this kind of thing.
- samfisher83 8y agoIs this actually a good thing with the lack of social safety nets if you get sick or injured? You have to pay payroll tax. Its not like Uber or Grubhub are a good paying job. I guess you have freedom, but one accident can ruin you. If you work for a big company at least you get health, short and longterm insurance etc.
- phil248 8y agoI took much bigger risks (changed industries, started a company, did freelance work) once Obamacare was passed. I never went without health insurance, and it was subsidized during those periods when I could least afford it. It's insane to me that conservatives somehow landed on the side of opposing a system that encourages professional independence and risk taking. They talk a big game about "small business owners" but make it as dangerous as possible to try and become one.
- csdreamer7 8y agoDon't know why you are being downvoted. ACA plans are limited and pricey, but health insurance before Obamacare was a joke. Lifetime caps and pregnancy being a preexisting condition, and then trying to get health care by yourself. We really need an option to buy into medicaid. No deductibles, no co-pays, dental included, network is limited, but so are ACA plans.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> We really need an option to buy into medicaid. No deductibles, no co-pays State Medicaid plans can and do require deductibles, copays, and similar charges (cost sharing). https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/cost-sharing/index.html https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/cost-sharing/index.html
- csdreamer7 8y agoAre you sure that link is up to date? The latest referenced was published in 2010. Also the groups mentioned that medicaid can charge are mothers and the disabled. No mention of able working adults. That seems really strange. Update: just clicked on the summary of one of them. Doesn't even mention the ACA, but other acts: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act)
- tmaly 8y agoI would be interested to know which specific technical skills make you most valuable as a freelancer
- jothezero 8y agoBullshit, not usa workers
- djrogers 8y agoIs 6% growth over 4 years a lot? Is that faster or slower growth than normal over the past 10/20/50 years?
- tiktoktek 8y agoFor smaller work, it works for both Freelancer and buyer.
- perseusprime11 8y agoIsn’t Uber & Lyft driving this increase?