AAFA Action Alert: Protect Your Health and Keep Access to Health Insurance
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Blog Post CommentI was wondering if there was a Canadian counter part to the AAFA?
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Blog Post CommentMaryrita - there isn't anything in Canada officially associated with AAFA. There are a few national Canadian organizations that do focus on asthma and allergies.
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Blog Post CommentMillions of uninsured Americans can get FREE bronze plans for 2019. If you or someone you love is uninsured: https://www.healthinsurance.or...ubsidies/#freebronze Open enrollment ends in most states THIS SATURDAY, although a few states have extended deadlines: https://www.healthinsurance.or...n-enrollment-period/ So if you haven't looked at your insurance options lately, now is the time to check and see if you're among the people who can get free coverage.
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Blog Post Comment❤️Patients were heard! The Graham-Cassidy bill is defeated. Pre-existing conditions, lifetime caps and other protections for patients are protected. Thank you to all of our advocates for sharing your stories and taking action. We hope the next step to improving our health care system puts patients’ needs front and center and that our leadership listens and fixes the items that are still barriers to care.
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Blog Post CommentSo, if I fill out the form you send in a request to keep the AFA for me, with my information? No way! I didn't know the AAFA was a liberal site. I thought you were a neutral non-profit. I know more working people now without insurance because of the AFA. I now pay $1323.00 a month in premiums for a family of three. I used to pay half that. I personally hope and pray we find a better plan than the AFA. It's driving costs up and insurance companies out of business. The first year the US HAD...
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Blog Post CommentI'm so angry. This was the one safe place I could go the last seven months to get away from politics and here it is.... inevitable I assume.
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Blog Post Comment❤️Thanks for this info. Are there any recommended action items if we'd like to get involved? Recommendations for calling/writing our Congressional Representatives, for example.
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Blog Post CommentAmber - we are working behind the scenes and will let everyone know about actions to take once things are finalized. Stay tuned!
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Blog Post Comment❤️If you receive health insurance through your job, be sure to tell your employer now how important affordable, non-discriminatory health care is to you and your family! Many employers are shopping around for plans now before open enrollment begins in late fall.
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Blog Post CommentI've been using a sensor put out by Propeller that does nearly the same thing and have really enjoyed it. I get a report each month showing my usage. The only thing it doesn't offer is the comparison of my inhaler technique.
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Blog Post CommentThanks for sharing your experience with the connected sensor. How do you use the report? Do you share it with your doctor?
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Blog Post CommentI offered to email it to my dr or nurse but they aren't interested. However, it helps me out because I can see how often I use my inhaler. Their app also lets me put in my other asthma meds that can't use the sensor and track those as well. I take Symbicort 2x a day and have set reminders as I was bad at remembering to use it and now, I use it 12 out of 14 times a week (those missed are usually on the weekends when I tend to sleep in and don't think about it).
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Blog Post CommentIts ridiculous that MD do have no protection for our childern. My daugther has asthma bad especially in September this year it was the 1st day. Plus yes our school systems is so not right. They failed my baby 2 two but over turned the last one. Then last year ask if she wants to go in her correct grade in October no this should of been offered before school started. Crazy no implenations or help.
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Blog Post Comment❤️Thank you so much for sending out this information. It will help many people.
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Blog Post CommentI get allergy shots to help prevent my asthma from triggering . But my allergy/asthma Dr is closed right now . So how do I get my shot On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 1:54 PM Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America < support@aafa.org> wrote:
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Blog Post CommentHi Mehgan! Welcome to the AAFA forums! If their office is closed, can you email them and express your concerns? I know for us, many appts and procedures that we had scheduled have been canceled.
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Blog Post Comment😢Good informationbinformation, I live in Illinois and the Dermatology office has been closed for the last few weeks.my daughter has already missed 2 Dupixen shots.
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Blog Post CommentHi Maria, welcome to the AAFA forums. I am sorry to hear that your daughter has missed her last two Dupixent shots. How is your daughter doing?
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Blog Post CommentAs of April 6, 2020, we have updated this blog post to include the District of Columbia, Minnesota and Vermont.
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Blog Post CommentWe updated this blog post on July 20, 2020, to reflect which states have ended or extended their open enrollment periods. We also added more COVID-19 resources.
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Blog Post Comment💯This is an excellent topic. I would like for all of us to be protected.
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Blog Post Comment💯Absolutely Deborah!
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Blog Post CommentThe Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are both appropriate for adults over the age of 18 (Pfizer's can be given to teens/adults at 16 years old and up). Now, if you're coughing and choking because you have COVID, you should hold off on getting the vaccine until you feel better ( per the CDC ). If you are coughing and choking because you have an allergies (e.g., pollen, peanuts, pineapple, etc), you can still get the vaccine. That said, if you are allergic to any of the specific...
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Blog Post CommentHi @californiamom ! Welcome to the community. We have a blog post with lots of information on the COVID-19 vaccines . The post includes and easy-to-use chart that explains who should get which vaccine, who should talk their doctor first, and who may want to wait. Have you signed up for your vaccine appointment yet? Thanks for the reminder to smile - I always appreciate a good smile. Lorene
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Blog Post Commentwhich vaccine do you suggest for a senior with breathing and coughing and choking issues? MODERNA, PFIZER OR JOHNSON AND JOHNSON? .....AND DON'T YOU FORGET TO SMILE TODAY. I KNOW I AM. On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:16 AM Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America < support@aafa.org> wrote:
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Blog Post CommentI am not black but I had no support in the workplace during pregnancy, and my (now-ex) child's father only stole from me in that yi e period. I became ill, but worked until two days before I gave birth, used all my vacation days for the first 2 weeks after, actually had to bring my infant to work in my office after that, taking breaks to breast feed, and I got really sick during pregnancy and after. I had developed severe asthma during pregnancy, and then had a heart attack caused by a...
