Ain't Nothing Gonna Break Our Stride:

Creators Guild of America partners with Stride Health. CGA Members can now find health insurance via customized portal.

(November 14, 2024, Los Angeles)? The Creators Guild of America (CGA) today announced its new partnership with health coverage navigation service Stride Health, introducing a customized portal that will allow its members to find optimal health insurance options within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace.? This partnership represents the first major step the CGA has taken to help provide its members and associates with crucial health benefits.

“Across the US, affordable health coverage continues to be a kind of 'holy grail' for personal and family security,” observes CGA President and Founder Daniel Abas. “This is doubly true of freelancers like content creators, whose revenue frequently depends on volatile and elusive metrics like views, shares or subscribers.? By popular consensus, the Affordable Care Act has come to represent both an improvement over the unregulated market it replaced, and at the same time, a dense, intimidating fog of competing options and plans.? The clarity of Stride's guidance has been a godsend for thousands of Americans, and I'm heartened by the prospect that CGA members will now be among them.”

?A leader in the healthcare facilitation space and a partner of Healthcare.gov, Stride's online platform utilizes custom inputs such as, zip code, family size, preferred doctors, prescriptions and health conditions to narrow the offerings on the national healthcare marketplace and generate a recommended plan suited to their needs and budget level. Once a user selects a plan, Stride's platform expedites the application and purchase process, turning an otherwise daunting quest for affordable, appropriate coverage into a brisk and frictionless operation, no more labor intensive than a simple online survey.??

“Content creators are one of the growing segments of the independent workforce in America, which is underserved by our outdated benefits system,” explains Bryan Giamio, Vice President Enterprise Partnerships. “We are excited to partner with the CGA as their portal becomes an essential entry point for the digital content labor force, creating greater access to much needed health insurance benefits, especially right now during open enrollment for 2025 coverage.”

The partnership between the organizations provides for the creation of a co-branded platform to provide Stride's free services to guild members and associates.? The CGA will provide multi-channel? promotion for the platform, referring members to the portal via its member dashboard, direct outreach via email, social media bulletins and a live panel discussion.? Timed to coincide with the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment period through January 15, 2025, the co-branded portal is live and fully operational as well as via mobile app available on major application marketplaces. Creators can search for and sign up for their coverage by clicking below or by visiting the Members' Only section of the Creators Guild of America website.

Get Started: CGA & Stride Health Portal

################?????

About the Creators Guild of America

The Creators Guild of America (CGA) is the non-profit 501(c)6 professional service organization established to protect and promote the rights and interests of digital content creators.? Launched in 2023, the CGA offers a variety of benefits to creators, including its accreditation service, its digital and in-person panels covering essential topics in the creator economy, networking and information-sharing opportunities, and advocacy within the media industry and in time, at the state and federal level. The CGA is led by its admin team, Board of Directors, Chairs and Advisory Council, populated by established professionals drawn from content creators, platforms, service providers and thought leaders from within the creator economy.? ??

About Stride?

Stride simplifies the complexities of being an independent worker by creating a modern benefits system for individuals — regardless of their employment status — that they can take with them and to which companies can contribute but do not control. Stride is the first portable benefits platform specifically designed for the nearly 60 million American independent workers who do not receive employer-based benefits. The Stride platform offers access to insurance — health, dental, vision, life and other supplemental insurance — as well as financial tools to track income, mileage and other deductible expenses to manage their tax obligations, all via a single app. Since launching in 2014, Stride has helped more than 4 million workers save more than $7.2 billion on their taxes and monthly health insurance premiums. Stride is partnered with over 100 organizations, including with the world's leading work platforms, employers and service providers of non-benefited workers