Jack Haven needs work ASAP to qualify for health insurance: 'I will do, pretty much any job'

This story originally appeared on Them.Health insurance in the United States, is infamously difficult to procure, especially for workers without a traditional 9 to 5. This unfortunately happens to be the case for highly award-nominated trans actor Jack Haven, known for their roles in Atypical, I Saw The TV Glow, and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, who is struggling to qualify for Screen Actors Guild health insurance for the coming calendar year.On September 21, Gay Times shared an Instagram post reporting that Haven “has made an urgent appeal for work.” According to the queer British magazine, Haven recorded a video on September 20 explaining that they’re in “a bit of an emergency situation,” and need to make $4,000 by the end of this month to secure their health insurance for the following year. “I guess what I’m asking is if you, or if anyone you know, can hire me on a set or production and pay me $4,000, I will do, pretty much, any job,” they said. “I can sing, I can dance, I can talk softly… loudly, I can do accents — British,”⁠ Haven shared in the video. They also included an email for folks to send potential job offers to (scabproductions@gmail.com in case you’re one of those people). It’s no secret that we are living in a literal nightmare hellscape of a country. Prices of just about everything are skyrocketing. The national average gas price is hovering around $4.50 a gallon, about $1.30 more than it was just one year ago. According to Business Insider, over 40 companies have laid off employees in 2026 alone, particularly in the tech, media, retail, and finance industries. And with privatized health insurance often being tied to employment in the United States, it leaves marginalized workers who rely on this care at a disadvantage when the threat of losing their job or being out of work disrupts their ability to receive said care. Historically, trans people have experienced disproportionate rates of unemployment compared t