‘We Are Being Left Behind': Retired Hollywood Actors Protest Changes to SAG-AFTRA Health Plan

Changes to the guild’s cash-strapped health plan could force thousands of seniors off their coverage in the middle of a pandemic

David Lander had been a member of SAG-AFTRA long before he got his big break as Squiggy on the classic 1970s sitcom “Laverne & Shirley.” But now, he and thousands of retired members of Hollywood’s actors guild are about to be thrown off of their health plan due to drastic changes being made to cut costs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

And that’s especially bad for Lander considering that he has spent the past 36 years grappling with multiple sclerosis. “People need to know how serious this is,” he told TheWrap. The health plan “has kept me alive, and I never thought it would disappear.”

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Jeremy Fuster

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