In response to the current economic crisis, a leading nonprofit for advancing the arts has joined the healthcare debate. Americans for the Arts, in partnership with twenty national arts organizations, is drawing attention to members of the arts community who are ineligible for group insurance coverage due to their nontraditional employment. Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, called on the cultural sector to show support for a comprehensive healthcare reform bill. “Now is the time for those in the arts community to join together,” said Lynch in a press release. “More than two million arts workers are calling on Congress to pass legislation that will provide all Americans and its cultural workforce with guaranteed universal heath insurance coverage. We have solutions, Congress must listen.” The coalition also points out that the rocketing costs of healthcare are exhausting the already dwindling budgets of the nonprofits. Among the organizations in conjunction with Americans for the Arts are the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, the Arts & Business Council, and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.