AHIRC: The Health Insurance Resource Directory


About AHIRC.org

Since 1998, The Artists Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC) website has helped artists everywhere get affordable, quality health inusrance and health care.

Created by The Actors Fund with a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts and sustained by grants from The Commonwealth Fund and Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC)/ Ford Foundation, AHIRC is a carefully researched, constantly updated and revised database of annotated links that quickly connect you to the information and services you need.

Our website is completely unbiased. We do not accept advertising or commercial endorsements. The only thing we promote is the healthy artists with full access to health care.

Our mission is to get every artist in the United States covered.



About The Artists' Health Insurance Resource Center of The Actors Fund


With in-person counseling in New York and Los Angeles, national telephone support, and more than one hundred Getting and Keeping Health Insurance workshops offered at arts, cultural and human services organizations throughout the country, AHIRC works to reduce the number of uninsured artists and expand access to quality, affordable health care.

For more information, contact us at 323.933.9244 ext. 32 in Los Angeles, or 212-221-7300 ext. 265 in New York.

Attend a Health Insurance Seminar

Health Care Reform

The Actors Fund's Renata Marinaro, LMSW, explains what is in the law in this video.

LINC City and Regional Health Care Guides

AHIRC has written brief guides on getting affordable health care and insurance in cities around the country. These guides outline health insurance options in a practical Q & A format, and include links to pertinent websites and contact information for selected clinics and pharmacies.