Alyssa Rosenberg at ThinkProgress writes:

The Affordable Care Act matters to artists—just as it matters to a lot of entrepreneurs—because it makes it easier to take chances and carve out the time that makes it possible to pursue an artistic career. These aren’t folks who are demanding instant success, or a lot of money for their art, or even consistent rather than seasonal or contract employment. Instead, they’re people who want to lower their overall level of risk, and are more than willing to pay to afford to do so. They’re folks who would like to set up their lives so that when bad medical things happen, they are merely bad, even very bad, rather than completely catastrophic.

How many times have we posted on Slog about fundraisers for people in the arts who couldn't get insurance under our old, insane system and ended up facing one of those "completely catastrophic" outcomes? And how many aspiring artists were discouraged from taking a leap by imagining that future for themselves? How many aspiring artists have kept soul-sucking jobs they hate mainly for the insurance those jobs provide?

As Rosenberg writes, Obamacare "makes it easier to be brave, and take risks, not just in the art that you’re creating, but in deciding to make art at all."