Don’t Have Health Insurance? Start Your Own Insurance Company!
How Sara Horowitz created affordable health care benefits for freelancers.
Sara Horowitz
Courtesy Sara Horowitz.
Sara Horowitz was born into a proud union family. Her father worked as a labor lawyer, her grandfather as a vice president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. So it felt like kismet when, on the first day of a new law firm job, Horowitz discovered that she and several other recent hires had been classified as independent contractors. “We weren’t given retirement or health insurance benefits. We called ourselves ‘the transient workers union,’ and I was made president. We joked about it, but for me it was a significantaha! moment. I started realizing there was this whole new way that workers were being treated.
