When the music fades: US musicians' healthcare crisis

Woe betide the career musician who falls ill without US health insurance, facing huge medical bills – or no care at allJosh Homme has a pertinent piece of advice for any musician hoping for help from the American medical system. "If you want to live," says the leader of Queens of the Stone Age, "you better be rich."Two years ago, Homme's Queens bandmate Natasha Shneider died from cancer, aged just 52. She was put on chemotherapy pills – two a day at $500 a time. Schneider had health insuranc...

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