Freelancers need health care, too. Here’s how to cover them.

Patrice Onwuka is director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at Independent Women and co-host of the WMAL-DC show “O’Connor & Company.”

Health care — and the affordability of insurance — was front and center in the shutdown debate. But evenas the government reopens, both parties will still confront the challenge of expanding affordable health care coverage to more Americans. For innovative, bipartisan solutions, federal policymakers can look to the states.