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February 24, 2021
Many Broadway workers are due to lose health insurance during the pandemic. (Photo: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
The Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds is lobbying New York state to include healthcare provisions, including COBRA subsidies, in the upcoming budget.
With most of the theater industry out of work and in danger of losing healthcare coverage, the affiliated unions are asking the state to renew its COBRA subsidy program for entertainment workers, which would cover 50% of members’ healthcare premiums. The state’s current COBRA program is set to expire July 2021.
Individual unions have also been lobbying the federal government to include a COBRA subsidy in the upcoming relief package. The latest version of the federal stimulus relief package includes a COBRA subsidy that covers 85% of healthcare premium costs and ends Sept. 30, 2021. However, the package has not yet been finalized.