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Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. In my work, I am seeing so many mental health issues brought on by economic and health stressors. What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? Not sure.
What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? From our organizational standpoint, we need massive amounts of rental and mortgage assistance while extending a national eviction moratorium.
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. Our Kids Fitness business has lost thousands of dollars as we were unable to have summer camps, had no classes during March, April, May. Classes the last couple of months have been at half capacity. What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? the assurance if I was to get covid-19…
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. My parents are impacted because they are disabled, elderly, on a fixed income and have health issues. Seeking medical care has been difficult and not always available when needed. The fear of exposure is always on their mind. Grocery shopping is even difficult with the click-list options. Luckily I am able to take mom to her medical appointments and procedures and…
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. Virtual school has been very difficult for my son and his family. Both parents are essential workers thus they have had no childcare and now working all day and coming home and getting school work done. What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? Childcare provisions. Everyone to wear a mask…
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. As a mental health therapist, my job has become more important than ever. I work with a population that has a lower socio-economic standard than the “average” Kentuckian. It has become increasingly difficult to find community and state resources for the families that have been affected by the virus. Several of my clients are facing possible eviction, loss of benefits, and…
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. I am a school psychologist with Multiple Sclerosis, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), and Raynaud’s Disease. I have worked full-time for 26 years except for being on Retirement Disability for 18 months during that time. My husband was furloughed during the pandemic while I worked from home for a portion of this crisis. Because I take a chemotherapy to manage my…
What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? Hazard pay for being an essential worker; debt relief programs; access to more PPE; increased access/payments for behavioral health services.
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. We can’t visit a loved one who is in a nursing home. What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? A truly safe vaccine, not driven by the President’s timeline
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. Money is getting tight due to my wife being off work. She goes into the homes of young children for her job. She will be off work for several more months and we need financial assistance. What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? More financial assistance. More P-EBT
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. The pandemic has caused me to be stressed because I am worried about my wife and step son when they go out in public. The covid test sites are not work hours friendly. The close time for the centers do not allow poeple who work up to 5 to get tested without taking work off. What do you need to stay…
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. I am a nurse at KCH in Lexington. I have a disabled daughter living at home. She is unable to get the services that she needs because of COVID. She lost her job, her daily acitivites have been halted, and her risk of exposure by me is an everyday worry. What do you need to stay healthy and take care of…
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. 99% stay at home as retirees in vulnerable age groups for my wife. It directly impacted employment and reduced annual income of two adult unmarried sons (substantial impacts, major) What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? Get control of this highly infectious virus, letting science and scientific experts lead process….
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. As a retired person, I have mainly been effected by the isolation accompanying COVID-19. Not attending worship, limited family gatherings, decreasing volunteer activities is difficult. We provide food ministries at our church where we see the impact of job losses & too little income to make ends meet increasing daily. What do you need to stay healthy and take care of…
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. Have required our adult children to not come in the house except rarely. What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? For everyone else to wear a mask!!
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. A member of my family who had been treated for lung cancer with chemotherapy died of COVID-19 in July. What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? I am a health care worker: I work in a non-profit public clinic and am at some risk due to age and exposure. Testing,…
Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. After our daycare re-opened they are no longer able to provide breakfast, lunch and snacks to children. As parents we are forced to pack their food each day while we continue to pay the normal tuition which previously included food pre-COVID. Due to our son being four and not in a public school but rather a daycare we were told we…
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Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. This effects every single person I work with on a daily basis. I work with the homeless population who has little to nothing. This population is struggling day-by-day to just survive, and for those that are trying to live and maintain their health they can no longer do so…
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? pitting off going to the dr. or filling prescriptions Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. we do not make enough money to afford insurance, how can we afford to pay for copays
Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I work with the homeless population, many of whom have little to no income.
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. People will choose to put off an appointment if they know they do not have the copay funds, too often making the health problem even worse. We should not put roadblocks in…
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Some people in my community cannot get health care or medications they need because they make just over the 100% poverty line. They stay ill and I am afraid several of these…
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I have many friends and clients who do not have the necessary funds to pay their copays, which often causes them to neglect their health needs.
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. If it is only $1 or $3, that’s not a big deal. I mean, most people blow that much. You are getting medical care for free. It’s something that’s gonna help you….
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I don’t go sometimes because I don’t know if they’re going to ask me for money or not. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. It’s not fair because I’m afraid to go over there because I got no…
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I am on physically disabled, and on SSI. I cannot work part or full time, due to various limitations. My SSI stipend comes out to $771 a month. I make no additional…
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? A dollar here or there, or three, might not seem like much, but I do not make a lot. Money is already tight – I need care to continue to be able to work and the stress of wondering if I can afford my therapy or doctor visit, or the medications that keep me healthy, does NOT help…
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I had 3 medications I needed filled on 4/9/19. The total copay was $3. I had to wait until 4/16/19 to get them because I didn’t have the money. I had to…
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. It really doesn’t affect me. Healthcare costs money. These are literally the cheapest copays of any health insurance plan. If it will satisfy the public and the governor and allow us to…
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I won’t be able to go to the doctors or physical therapy appointments. I’m also a diabetic and see a behavioral therapist and I don’t know how I’m suppose to be my co-pays and prescription co-pays Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your…
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Unable to fill monthly prescriptions, Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Copays are hard to pay when on a fixed income Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I have Medicare my copays are hurting my alot
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. None
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.
How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? It’s hard to get out of being poor when you can’t afford doctors and medicine. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.
