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This is beyond confidence and now here's your host.
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W Park A good morning listeners. That's Tuesday and I
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get to be with you, so thank you for being
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part of us. And it was Memori Levey Can. I
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wanna be a tribute to all our fallen heroes and
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heroes because of whom we have our freedom. So very
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thankful for their services and for their families as well.
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So we always talk about kindness Circle and the story
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that I want to share is the story of Johanna,
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one of our audiences. So what Johanna shared was that
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she lives in an apartment building and what she found
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was that a mom had, you know, she had her
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two year old like down there, and it's like, you know,
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the mom was apparently on the first floor. So what
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Johanna said was like, you know what, why don't you
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bring your baby down first, and I'll watch the baby
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while your son is playing inside the house, and then
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bring your son down. So just that little kindness went
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such a long way and mom was so profusely grateful.
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So just kind of think about it, and of course,
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you know, you just don't want to jump into help
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because people can take it another way. So just kind
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of ask them and said, okay, and I'm your neighbor,
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you know, identify yourself. And that's what Johanna did. So
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thank you Johanna for keeping it going. For those of
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you who have got our books, we thank you because
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partial profits go to keep it our organ For those
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who have not got our books, get the books, any
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of the books that we have written. Entrepreneurs got in
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expert to influencer, your masterpiece and actually my another book
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will be coming out this year, so very excited about it.
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Get it and help us spread the message. And let's
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welcome our guests. Welcome Monica, Welcome Joanna.
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Thank you. It's nice to bear with you.
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Oh it's wonderful to have y'all, so share it with us.
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If you'll recall any times from your childhood or youth
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when somebody left or it was just an incident like
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that left to positive.
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Mark on you, well, that is a very broad question.
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I would say that.
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Maybe not from just from childhood, but I think that
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in my career there have been many times in doing
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the work that I've been doing where people actually took
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the time to share the impact that it had on them,
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and I think that that.
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Is incredibly rewarding in the work.
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That we do.
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But it also helps drive you.
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And it also helped give me perspective on the challenges
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that people that other people are experiencing.
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So it gives me perspective on my own life and
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how fortunate I am in many ways.
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Absolutely, how about you, Monica, I.
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Would certainly go what Joanna just shared.
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I will also say that through my professional life, I
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have had the absolute honor to work with some incredibly
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brilliant and hard working women, and a couple of those
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women really took the time to mentor me and to
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support me as I began my career, and that really
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showed me that the power of community can mean so
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many different things. And in that specific instance, you know,
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the community of strong, intelligent, driven women can really lift
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each other up and they can just do incredible things
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in life.
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So, Joanna, what got you into becoming a lawyer?
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Well, I have to admit that when I went to
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law school, I knew that I didn't want to be a.
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Litigator or be in the courtroom.
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I really found that there was power in the law
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that it creates the systems that we have to navigate
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and has an impact on our daily lives. And so
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I really wanted to be able to engage in the
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policy aspects of being a lawyer and being able to
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shape laws in a way that have a positive impact
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on our society.
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And how did you get involved in that?
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Well, I went to law school thinking that I wanted
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to do that on an international level. I was an
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international relations major in undergrad but then when I got.
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To law school, I found that there were a lot.
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Of places in our domestic policy that could be improved,
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and so I did an internship. Well, I was in
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law school that focused on providing services to people with
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disabilities and cancer and that is really what led me
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down the path to my current career.
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So it wasn't planned, but.
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It found Well, that's how life is. So many times
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we have plans and life takes a detour and sometimes
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we don't know. And that's the beauty of every day
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and it's a beautiful gift that we all have. Someone
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is go about you, how did you get into the career.
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Well, I'm sorry for the technical difficulties, but I too
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had a windy path towards becoming a cancer rights attorney.
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I went to law school knowing that I wanted to have.
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An understanding of how everyday.
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People could use the law to improve society, and so
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I started off working in Congress in trying to shape
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do my small part in shaping public policy and laws
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that would really uplift the lives of day Americans. Personal
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reasons had me leaving Washington, d C. And then I
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really struggled to find a career where I could use
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my knowledge of both policy and how laws were made
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and implemented, but in a really tangible way help a community.
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And thankfully, through Joanna's support, that led me to the
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cancer community and I've been here ever since.
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So how did you get together?
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So? Monica and I are actually sisters, so people know
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us in the cancer community as sisters, but we effectively
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grew up in a healthcare community. Our parents are both
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doctors and worked in the oncology space and gave us.
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Perspective and an introduction.
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To the challenges that patients and caregivers experience when diagnosed
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with sterious medical condition.
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So so many times what happens to Joanna is that
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you know you're working in the corporations, the daily conundrums
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and the daily humdown of life, and then all of
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a sudden, I mean, of course there are pressures. You
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know that you may have kids, you may not have kids,
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doesn't matter whether you're single or spouse or in partnership,
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wherever you are at, just that daily pressures are enough
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as it is, and then all of a sudden, any
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life threatening illness or cancer like immune and it's it
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is so traumatic in itself. So now you're in that
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situation or one of your loved ones is in that situation.
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So initially, like you know, I've heard stories from my clients.
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They've said that, you know, the bosses, everybody's been very supportive,
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but that support kind of seems to keep on drying
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up if it lingers around long. And these are like,
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you know, long driven illnesses. So tell us, like, you know,
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how can people get through all of that?
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There are laws that do provide protections related to employment,
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both for employees who are diagnosed with serious medical conditions
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like cancer, but also for caregivers. But there are also
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employer policies that provide additional benefits and protections that can
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be supportive. And so when we're talking about employment, we're
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also trying to teach employers about the ways that they
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can support their employees dealing with chronic or serious medical conditions,
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because at the end of the day, employers want to
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keep valued employees, and so we have to remember that
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employers and employees they have a mutually beneficial relationship, and
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there's value in creating an environment that.
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Supports both the needs of both.
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And so while we are generally teaching employees about their rights,
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we also try to teach employers about what their legal
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responsibilities are under the law, but also ways to proactively
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try to support employees in those situations. But I fully
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realize that that is easier said than done, and we
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see the full spectrum of employee experience. So we see
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employees who have really supportive employers throughout their.
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Health condition experience.
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But then we also, unfortunately see the downsides of when employers.
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Don't understand their legal obligations or are less concerned with
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supporting their employees.
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So let's say, let's begin with an employer, what can
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they already put in place so if something like this
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happens to prepared for it well.
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From an employee perspective, I think the most important thing
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is to understand your rights and where the laws do
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and don't apply to.
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Excuse me, they're specific employer.
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So every law that we talk about actually applies to
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different types of employers. So if you're looking for protection
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under the Family and Medical Leave Act, for example, which
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is a federal law, it only applies to private employers
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with fifty or more employees, or to state, local, or
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federal government employees. So if you know that that's a
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benefit that you want to have access to, if you're
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looking to work for a smaller employer that might not
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be the right fit for you, or understanding what additional
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benefits that smaller employer might be willing to provide even
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though they're not legally required to do it. So you
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can be strategic in looking for employment opportunities.
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But in order to do that, you have to kind
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of understand the laws that would be helpful to.
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You in dealing with a chronic or serious medical condition
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and then look for employers that are actually bound by
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those laws. The same thing is true though when you're
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looking at benefits, so looking at employer health insurance benefits,
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for example, if you know that you have a chronic
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or serious medical condition, making sure that you have access
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to quality health insurance coverage is key. We sometimes assume
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that all employers have the same health insurance coverage or
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it's going to be good health insurance coverage because it's
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being provided by an employer, and that might not be true.
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So understanding how to look at those options and figure
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out if it's going to meet your needs is also
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something that employees can proactively do when looking at employment opportunities.
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Yeah, no, that's definitely because that is the time they
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can negotiate and they can make the decisions. You know,
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which company to even look for. So as you mentioned that,
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if you have that, you also talked about insurance. So
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there's so many different types of insurances. So let's kind
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of explore, like, you know, a couple of options. One
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is insurance given by the companies. One is there are
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a lot of contractors a lot of entrepreneurs, So in
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both situations, what options they can consider and what they
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can go with.
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For individuals who aren't working for an employer that is
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going to offer them benefit, there are specific options available
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and so then it might come down to where you
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live and your income level. But generally speaking, if you're
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not taking those two things into consideration. There are private
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health insurance plans that are offered through state health insurance marketplaces.
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So those marketplaces are often called exchanges or sometimes people
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call them ACA plans or Obamacare plans, but effectively, the
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government created a shopping mall for health insurance coverage called marketplace,
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and in going to the marketplace, you can find all
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of the private health insurance plans that are offered to
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you in your state that also have to provide some
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consumer protections, and depending on your income level, you might
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qualify for financial help to actually buy your health insurance
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plan or to lower some of your out of pocket costs.
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So depending on your employment, if you're in contract employment,
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or you're an entrepreneur, or even in some gig jobs,
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those are all times where you might not have access
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to employer sponsored insurance and you could look at the
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marketplace to see what health insurance options are available to you.
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And then depending on your state and your income level,
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you might also qualify for medicaid in your state.
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Yeah, these are some very important points in your experience.
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Are there any criterias that people need to keep in
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mind as they're making their selections.