I'm a freelancer in Virginia. I work on web apps for companies that want to figure out their sales figures better. I work on reports for non-profits who want to see how they are raising money. What hospital in its right mind would buy a heart monitor from someone like me? What car manufacturer in their right mind would want me to work on their control systems?

I could do it, but that's not the point. Those examples they provide, they are already controlled. They're already covered by very large corporations that have these sorts of controls in place. If they subcontract out to me, the responsibility lies with them to verify that my work is suitable.

This is just about preventing people like me from doing what we're trying to do: quit our jobs, make some money, bring their friends in and bootstrap a company.