The end of the year is fast approaching and it brings to mind images of Christmas with the family, warm hot cocoa, wrapping up in your favorite blanket, and healthcare. Yes healthcare. With the deadline fast approaching people are not only frantically shopping for presents for their family but are frantically shopping for healthcare. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has had a rocky start to say the least, with the website crashing or failing to work properly and personal information being sent to the wrong people. Yet despite all these set backs people have finally been able to get healthcare they need.
One such individual from the Northwest is finally able to get health insurance despite his pre existing condition. He has a rare condition known as Anthropophobia Magnapede, a condition that causes him to be antisocial and very self conscience about his unusually large feet. Yes this person is Bigfoot. Bigfoot, or Sasquatch as he prefers to be called, has been approved for Healthcare. We tried to reach Sasquatch for comments on this but as we got close to him he bounded off into a fog.
This news may come as a surprise to many but we interviewed a few locals who have met with Mr. Sasquatch and one of them had this to say “I think it is great that he can get health insurance, I mean the president did say it was available to everyone.”
Another local said “I can’t believe he got approved, I know he makes a lot of money from the documentaries and the tourist attractions.”
Despite his income and local celebrity it would still be hard for someone with a pre existing condition like his to attain affordable healthcare prior to Obamacare. Now Sasquatch will be able to see a doctor whenever he needs to. He will be able to get care for his feet, which will help him find a full time job. He will be able to get help with his antisocial behavior so he can live a full and healthy life. This story is just one of a vast number of stories in which the Affordable Health Care Act has giving new hope and a second chance for someone who thought they would never get one.
Healthcare should be available to everyone, from the child who has the flu to someone battling cancer, to a lonely figure too embarrassed about his large feet to function in the rest of society. So while we are counting our blessing this years let us all be thankful that we can get the care we all need.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Motivational Monday
Some days it is hard to get out of bed, but Monday always seems like the worst. You have had the last couple days of waking up when you want and doing what you want, and the rest of the week you fall back into your routine of getting up and getting ready for work. We all have a bunch of reasons why we get out of bed on Monday but sometimes none of them seem good enough. Yet week after week we get up and go on with our lives. What are some of the things that make you get out of bed on Monday? The thought of a nice cup of coffee, the sight of a loved one, the smell of a good breakfast.
Most of us get up because we have to go to work. While some of us love our jobs (of which I would not count myself among those lucky few, unless I am getting paid to write then I would) most of us can think of a million other things we would rather do then go to work. I would love to stay home with a hot cup of coffee, a dog snuggled up next to me and write all day, or complete one of the hundred projects I need to get done on or around the house. Yet every Monday I get up 30 minutes before I have to be to work and grab a quick cup of coffee, throw on some clothes and it’s off to work. I have my reasons to work too, one of which is that I like to eat, another is I love a warm, dry place to sleep every night. But we all go to work for money so we can buy the things we need or want.
If you take a step back and really look at why we get out of bed on Monday it boils down to the fact that we want to. We might not want to go into work (though some people love what they do) but we are working toward a goal. We want to provide for ourselves through our labor and skills and be able to reach those goals we set for ourselves. It can be different for everyone, for me I go to work to provide a place for myself, my wife and our two dogs. I get up so I can try to better my life and theirs. These are things I want, this is what pulls my mind out of that warm comfortable unconscious state known as sleep and thrusts my body into action. This is what drives me to put my feet on the cold floor and get ready to go work in a hot factory for 10 hours. This is what I think of every Monday. This is what motivates me each week to punch that clock.
I am not saying I want to punch that clock every Monday, far from it. To be honest my ideal work would be at home writing, and I am working on that (hence what you are reading). Yet right now I need to punch the clock so I can survive until I can thrive. So while I am at work, surviving, I set my mind to other things. What do you want to do? How can I make this story I am working on better? What comes next in the story? How would this character react to this situation? These are questions that are going to help me thrive so I never stop asking them, and I ask them louder on Monday then any other day. So while I loath getting out of the dog pile that is my bed on Monday morning, I do it knowing that I will reach my goals and I will get the life I want and I will thrive.
So what are the questions that you ask yourself while you are surviving that are going to help you thrive? They will come through loudest on Monday so be sure to listen and remember why you get out of bed on Monday morning.
Most of us get up because we have to go to work. While some of us love our jobs (of which I would not count myself among those lucky few, unless I am getting paid to write then I would) most of us can think of a million other things we would rather do then go to work. I would love to stay home with a hot cup of coffee, a dog snuggled up next to me and write all day, or complete one of the hundred projects I need to get done on or around the house. Yet every Monday I get up 30 minutes before I have to be to work and grab a quick cup of coffee, throw on some clothes and it’s off to work. I have my reasons to work too, one of which is that I like to eat, another is I love a warm, dry place to sleep every night. But we all go to work for money so we can buy the things we need or want.
If you take a step back and really look at why we get out of bed on Monday it boils down to the fact that we want to. We might not want to go into work (though some people love what they do) but we are working toward a goal. We want to provide for ourselves through our labor and skills and be able to reach those goals we set for ourselves. It can be different for everyone, for me I go to work to provide a place for myself, my wife and our two dogs. I get up so I can try to better my life and theirs. These are things I want, this is what pulls my mind out of that warm comfortable unconscious state known as sleep and thrusts my body into action. This is what drives me to put my feet on the cold floor and get ready to go work in a hot factory for 10 hours. This is what I think of every Monday. This is what motivates me each week to punch that clock.
I am not saying I want to punch that clock every Monday, far from it. To be honest my ideal work would be at home writing, and I am working on that (hence what you are reading). Yet right now I need to punch the clock so I can survive until I can thrive. So while I am at work, surviving, I set my mind to other things. What do you want to do? How can I make this story I am working on better? What comes next in the story? How would this character react to this situation? These are questions that are going to help me thrive so I never stop asking them, and I ask them louder on Monday then any other day. So while I loath getting out of the dog pile that is my bed on Monday morning, I do it knowing that I will reach my goals and I will get the life I want and I will thrive.
So what are the questions that you ask yourself while you are surviving that are going to help you thrive? They will come through loudest on Monday so be sure to listen and remember why you get out of bed on Monday morning.
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