Why Decent’s serving freelancers first
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The future of work deserves the future of health #insurance.Before starting Decent, I spent six months working as a freelancer. I did paid growth projects from a hot desk at a coworking space in San Francisco, and got to know the other freelancers there — gifted developers, creatives, and business professionals with the courage and skill to bet on themselves. And I learned what every working freelancer already knows: this profession is exhilarating, but it’s not easy. It’s often lonely. The work is feast or famine. And the lack of affordable health insurance hurts.Freelancing in America survey, 2018My family of four was paying more for health insurance than for anything else in our budget — including rent in the Bay Area. It felt wrong, and it is.My familyHealth insurance premiums and out of (...)
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