This
journey that winds around a long day or week stretches you in many areas and
especially during so much stress with the Healthcare Exchange criticisms
DAILY! We did it, though. We wrapped up another call with the Team and
President Obama took time to speak to us.
He offered words of encouragement and appreciation and who could help
but notice that warm smile of his? I
loved the little pearl pin, too.
So,
we are grateful for Obama For America (OFA) for realizing that we can be a
part of building towards this nation’s success in our own unique ways to
support the President’s agenda. In
return, this supports our dreams. Our
dream years ago, was to overcome what we faced in the healthcare industry and
then help others overcome, too. We did
not accomplish that overnight we know and enrolling every American in one day
won’t happen. However, we keep helping
each other one by one get enrolled and we use alternative means to do so. When we advocate, we divide up and work
towards that one thing we all want for all mankind and not just a few. This mission of brotherly love spreads into
every corner of the country. Let me
digress long enough to say that when I began to see life through the eyes of my
disabled son, and other children, it was scary.
Through my youngest son’s eyes, there were ‘safety net’ programs that
assisted in many ways with medical costs.
However, our family still was forced into bankruptcy because of
‘pre-existing condition and 'caps.'’ My other
children and myself skipped over healthcare because there was no insurance to
help and we had no money for prescriptions anyway. These barriers are no longer distractions to living healthy and prosperous with Obamacare.
Now,
fast forward and understand why we all pulled together from various corners of
the nation and worked very hard to get the Affordable Care Act passed into
law. The church community prayed and
encouraged Believers not to give up and the Lord heard us and blessed us with the
ACA. It’s not evil, as I read somewhere. When we receive a car for a blessing, we
still have to wash it, gas it up, keep up the maintenance, etc. The same with a home. We do not throw our hands up and walk
away. Amen, Amen? I am trying to keep this all in context,
too. We went from a society of using
name brand drugs to generic brands because we understood what we could and
could not afford. We have to transfer
those same principles to enrolling our family members, seniors, church members,
co-workers, etc. into affordable healthcare. We share information
with them at events, parties, dinners, fellowship and remind them about mailing
applications in. The internet is still
frightening too many people. When they
hear about all the criticisms (night/day, etc.). They put off enrolling. We want to help ease the anxiety of those
people, particularly, and remind them, “You can mail an application in like you
would have 5 years ago.” Then tell them
how. Show them how. Applications can be downloaded from
Healthcare.gov. They can be mailed to
Health Insurance Market Place, The Department of Health & Human Services,
465 Industrial Boulevard, London, KY
40750-0001 after completion. A
Healthcare Community Counselor can be located by calling (855) 642-8572 to
assist with completing enrollment forms.
Many, many churches have healthcare ambassadors or healthcare fairs and
they are opportunities to enroll into the Healthcare Exchange with assistance
for all members who do not have health insurance. If you do not need health insurance, let
these experts tell you that. Relax.
The
goal is to encourage the uninsured that Healthcare Insurance is necessary and
it is not a punishment. It is ideal. It is wonderful! It will be a blessing! This is wisdom from those who testified about
living without affordable health insurance.
Prayed about it. Cried about it
long before the media grabbed hold and then the political mud-slinging began. The testimony of those who experienced a mental
health crisis without health insurance and were financially devastated with no
means to buy prescriptions, food, repair credit, etc. one way or another. This is about a population of persons who
wanted and needed to the end the shuffle from institutions or thrown into
homeless situations. The real concern is
not; ‘Oh, no, another kink so I do not need it.”
The real concern is that people, families, friends, desire better and
deserve to get what they need and fought for.
So,
we can do this in our communities by taking advantage of what is working and build
it up. We have to push because many families still do not have computers in the home as well. Invite people over for dinner and Healthcare Enrollment. Make a visit to the local library, or the Community Healthcare Locator office. What about if a church in your neighborhood is having a health fair including enrollment, but it is not your home church? Trust me, God will forgive you ... just get enrolled!!! Smile. Create solutions through partnering in your community to enroll young adults, uninsured adults, and families. Sponsor enrollment tournaments. Include Obamacare enrollment at your holiday charitable events and always remember the homeless. Oh, the possibilities are endless. amen, Amen.
Now,
there are many changes coming up and the holidays are basically upon us
already. The holidays are
stressful. The change in daylight is
stressful. Building a business is
stressful. These are all triggers of
starting your own business that throws brain chemicals off balance. Naps, rest, healthy eating, quiet time, a confidante, and exercise are all key to balance in a storm. You have to focus and push and remember you are not alone in the storm.
Learning
social media is wonderful! I actually
learned it several months ago at BSU with Pam Perry and I am now applying it. ‘Follow
Me’ as they say. Smile. Eventually, we will all be tweeting
together. I am already meeting some
great like-minded people. WOW! Remember I talked about continuous learning in our industry a while back? Well, if we cannot afford attending conferences,, workshops, etc., just yet, there are lots of online solutions. Currently, I am reading and about to enroll in an academy to further development of my business while attorneys go over the bylaws, articles of incorporation, etc. We never give up!
So,
if you are not tweeting yet, go to Twitter.com and open your account. The instructions are simple as far as
selecting a user name and a password.
Then you get your own little bird!
You can upload an image of yourself or business brand. Type in key words to find people, places,
and causes. Invite friends from your e-mail contacts/address book (be selective). This should include, of
course, the industry of your business.
Don’t forget your friends so information can be ‘retweeted’ which is
like forwarding mail as usual. Some main
information resource pages include: The
White House, NAMI-MD, and Bipolar/Depression communities. Bring national topics of your industry down to your community level in your unique way! Tip: Promote
yourself and business in social media by taking time to read other tweets, blogs, and articles. Then reply and retweet. This builds your relationships for connections and support and vice versa. You can link your blog to your Tweets. If you use FB to promote your business,
etc., do NOT mingle it with your normal FB page that we all started and invited
millions of people we did not know. Keep
it small and unique to your business brand.
We want to build intimate business relationships. I’ll be looking for you all, too.
Smile!
Last thing, I am going to be blogging just once a week for that reason and taking other needed steps. I am still using the alarm thingy M-F, but freelancing on weekends/holidays. And this Christmas, will be...a very special Christmas.......for me;)
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