[…]The Washington, D.C.-based artist advocacy nonprofit Future of Music Coalition has been fighting for healthcare for musicians for two decades, and first publicly supported a single-payer system back in 2003. Director Kevin Erickson acknowledged that universal healthcare wouldn’t take care of all of a musician’s financial needs, particularly with regards to specialized mental healthcare, but it would undoubtedly help. “A sense that everybody has a safety net would allow for a feeling of creative freedom as well,” Erickson said. “People are always going to make art about the hard s**t they’re going through—we don’t have to make it harder.”[…]