According to state and county data, drug overdose deaths surged in 2016, killing nearly 60,000 Americans last year. It is an alarming 19% increase over the 52,404 recorded in 2015 and the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States. All evidence suggests the problem has continued to worsen in 2017. The epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse means that for Americans under the age of 50, drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death.
The New York Times compiled estimates for 2016 from hundreds of state health departments and county coroners and medical examiners. The initial data points to large increases in drug overdose deaths in states along the East Coast, particularly Maryland, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Maine. The Times analysis suggests that the exponential growth in overdose deaths in 2016 didn’t extend to all parts of the country. In some states in the western half of the United States, overdose deaths may have leveled off or even declined.
The Times data showed that heroin and fentanyl-related deaths are still increasing across the United States – particularly in the Northeast and Midwest. The death rate from synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, surged 72% in 2015, and heroin death rates increased nearly 21 percent.
In Ohio, overdose deaths increased more than 25% in 2016, largely driven by Cook County, where 1,091 of the state’s 3,310 overdose deaths were reported. Last week, the state of Ohio filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical industry, accusing drug manufacturers of aggressively advertising opioids and lying to both doctors and patients about the dangers of addiction.
The Drug Enforcement Agency wrote in a 2016 report detailing what the organization calls a global threat “The United States is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis, with law enforcement reporting and public health data indicating higher availability of fentanyls, increased seizures of fentanyls, and more known overdose deaths from fentanyls than at any other time since the drugs were first created in 1959.”
California had the largest total number of overdose deaths at 4,659 in 2015, followed by OH with 3,310, which like West Virginia has been hard hit by the epidemic. The Drug Abuse Warning Network estimated that misuse or abuse of narcotic pain relievers were responsible for more than 420,000 emergency department visits in 2011, the most recent year for which we have data.
Experts warn a key factor of the surge in deaths is fentanyl, which can be 50 times more powerful than heroin. Fentanyl has been popping up in drug seizures across the country. It is usually sold on the street as heroin or drug traffickers use it to make cheap counterfeit prescription opioids. Fentanyls are showing up in cocaine as well, contributing to an increase in cocaine-related overdoses.
Research suggests that since heroin and opioid painkillers, (including prescription ones) act similarly in the brain. Opioid painkillers are often referred to by some doctors as “heroin lite” and taking one (even “as directed”) can increase one’s susceptibility to becoming hooked on the other.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, June 11th, 2017 was:
MELISSA BARNES WALKER
Boaz, AL
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
6/5/17
Deborah Farris
Tonya Velazquez
Michelle Hughes
Bethany Henry
Glenna Zanaglio
Jennifer Leffler
Carol Scheive
Lisa Puckett
Michelle R. Carlino
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Christy Hawkes
Jennifer Vega
Wendi Black
Carole Jacobs
Jennifer Mapes
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Anggie Marie
June Rivera
Mary Mcmenamy
John McKnight
Dawna McKnight
6/6/17
Deborah Farris
Juanita Williams-Jones
Melissa Barnes Walker
Paula Rousseau
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Jenny Merritt
Karen Bondehagen
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Laurie Griffith
Amanda Peters
Lori Marie Timms
June Rivera
Nai Merri
Zack Sudler
Krissy Brislin
Mya Murphy
Melissa White
JoBeth Butcher
Poonam Gosain
Tina Mimick
Rebecca Fauteux
Kristen Raia Bowman
D Shanel Collins
6/7/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Rebecca Fauteux
Eleazar Ruiz
Nai Merri
Susanne Killion
Andrea Timms
Summer July
Cheryl Hall
Jacqlyn Gummert
Kristina Rosson
Melina Pereyra
April Ashcraft
Priscilla Shimp
Tonya Velazquez
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Beata Tybor
Mary Mcmenamy
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Angela N Dustin Turner
Elisa Adams
Phyllis Hines
6/8/17
Valerie Kuehn
Tonya Velazquez
Holly Cajigas
Trish Hysell
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Anggie Marie
Jennifer Leffler
Melissa Barnes Walker
Preeti Chand
Jane Peterson
Deborah Farris
Isis Sample
Kelly Jo Francisco
Daniela Hernandez
Vickie Gipson
Nelle Bailey
Jennifer Mason
Tina Marie
Taschia Miller
Jennifer Mapes
Wayne Gallas
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Jodi Stevens
6/9/17
Tonya Velazquez
Sandra Sue Blanton
Jennifer Ramlet
Carol Scheive
Phyllis Hines
Melissa White
Amanda Peters
David M Still
Mary Achio
Sarra Baptist
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Misty Shallcross
Tracy Shafer
Brittany Marie Thompson
Rhonda Nicholson
Diane Hamric
Elizabeth E. Suquilanda
Brandy Williams
Janice Cash
Crystal Young
Kayla Clemons
Tina Marie
Michelle Hughes
Deborah Farris
Rebecca Fauteux
6/10/17
Sheila Carvell
Mary Ann Cody
Cheryl Hall
Ashley Agner
Anggie Marie
Tammy Alcorta
Melinda Dreier
Jodi Stevens
Jackie Hicks
Poonam Gosain
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Amanda Saltsman
Christina Domingue
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Amanda Rosario
Holly Cajigas
Emily Rice Bowersock
D Shanel Collins
Trish Marks
Carol Yemola
Christine Beckman
6/11/17
Dawn Raasch
Priscilla Shimp
Preeti Chand
Christine McKinnon
Mike Adamski
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Jennifer Downing
Anna Nichols
Kimberly Snyder
Christina Montes
Heather Marie Stacy
Jodi Stevens
Tabitha Sinks
Shona Johnson
Pam Johnson Rowland
Alexandria Fields
Kaitlyn Rutherford
Eleazar Ruiz
Diane Hamric
Brian Fulop
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To the surprise of other world leaders, President Trump announced that the US will pull out of the Paris global climate pact. Abandoning the pact would isolate the US from international allies that spent years negotiating the 2015 agreement to fight global warming and pollution by reducing carbon emissions in nearly 200 nations.
The decision means the US will join only Nicaragua and Syria as UN-member countries that aren’t aboard. The US emits more carbon into the atmosphere than any country except China. Abandoning the pact was one of Trump’s principal campaign pledges and the decision reverses one of the Obama administration’s signature achievements. Still, America’s allies have expressed alarm about the likely consequences.
“The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord but begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris accord or an entirely new transaction in terms that are fair to the United States and its workers. So we’re getting out. We’ll see if we can make a deal. If we can’t, that’s fine,” Trump said to cheers during a ceremony in the Rose Garden.
A White House spokesperson said “The accord was negotiated poorly by the Obama Administration and signed out of desperation. The US is already leading the world in energy production and doesn’t need a bad deal that will harm American workers.”
The Paris climate agreement sets a goal for its signatories to keep warming below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), compared with preindustrial times, by 2100, with a goal of keeping global warming to a mere 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Each country sets its own voluntary goals for emissions cuts, pledging to become stricter as time goes by and there are no binding rules about how the countries should meet those goals.
When the agreement was signed, the US agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to between 26-28% of 2005 levels by 2025. The agreement does not officially go into effect until 2020, but meeting those goals would require all countries to take steps preemptive steps before 2020- like setting standards for vehicle emissions, appliances and power plants.
Critics of the decision to abandon the Paris agreement believe the likelihood of international cooperation on carbon-cutting goals past 2025 is on far shakier ground, and that the US will be forfeiting a seat at the table to shape the climate future.
They also feel it does enormous damage to our international credibility as withdrawal from international negotiations is becoming a pattern. The United States withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal under Trump’s first executive order. Trump is also hostile to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in which members pledge military cooperation with one another. Many feel it will be harder to negotiate other international issues without trust from other nations.
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In Montana, tech millionaire Greg Gianforte won a special election for the state’s sole congressional seat just one day after he was charged with assaulting a reporter. Gianforte body-slammed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs to the floor and repeatedly punched him, after Jacobs tried to ask about the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the House health care bill.
More than $6 million was spent by outside groups in Montana’s special election with 90% of the money favoring Gianforte. He won just over 50 percent of the vote, defeating Democratic challenger Rob Quist, who received 44 percent. Gianforte addressed the incident during his victory speech “Last night, I made a mistake, and I took an action that I can’t take back. And I’m not proud of what happened. I should not have responded in the way that I did. And for that, I’m sorry.”
Immediately after the violent altercation, the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs, quickly relayed the incident on social media. “Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses,” Jacobs tweeted. Jacobs went to a local hospital for an X-ray on his elbow and Gianforte left the event.
Jacobs’ account of the incident was corroborated by Fox News Alicia Acuna, who was in the room to interview Gianforte at the time of the violent attack. Acuna stated that after Jacobs asked Gianforte a question, Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck and slammed him to the ground before punching him repeatedly. “To be clear, at no point did any of us who witnessed this assault see Jacobs show any form of physical aggression toward Gianforte, who left the area after giving statements to local sheriff’s deputies,” Acuna wrote in her account of the attack.
The sheriff’s office released a statement saying it was investigating allegations of assault involving Greg Gianforte but held press conference hours later as news of the assault spread. Gianforte spokesperson Shane Scanlon released a statement that conflicted with witness accounts “Tonight, as Greg was giving a separate interview in a private office,” Scanlon said in the statement, “the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved a recorder in Greg’s face, and began asking badgering questions. Jacobs was asked to leave. After asking Jacobs to lower the recorder, Jacobs declined. Greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. Jacobs grabbed Greg’s wrist, and spun away from Greg, pushing them both to the ground. It’s unfortunate that aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer BBQ.”
In audio released of the incident, Jacobs asks Gianforte a question about the latest CBO scoring of the Affordable Health Care Act. “I’m sick and tired of you guys,” Gianforte said. A struggle can be heard on the recording as Gianforte continues “ The last guy who came here did the same thing. Get the hell out of here. Get the hell out of here. The last guy did the same thing. Are you with the Guardian?” “Yes! You just broke my glasses, you just body slammed me and broke my glasses,” Jacobs can be heard saying as Gianforte repeatedly yells at him to “Get the hell out of here.”
Earlier on the day of the assault, Jacobs had published a story in the Guardian about financial ties between Gianforte and Russian companies under U.S. sanctions. There is no word on whether his report in the Guardian was a motive in the assault.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, June 4th, 2017 was:
CHRISTINA MONTES
San Antonio, TX
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
5/29/17
Paula Rousseau
Diane Hamric
Amy Conyers
Althea Thomas
Tracy Shafer
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Kayla Clemons
Amy Stonger
Alicia Smith
StefJohn McClain-Sampson
Shannon R Garrett
Jessica Miller
Sheila Carvell
Dena Baji
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Anna Nichols
Amanda Kyrie’ Ayala
Trish Musgrave
Tera Wardrip
Michelle Hughes
Kelly Jo Francisco
Megan Hackworth
Luis Vazquez
Jade Good
5/30/17
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Mary Mcmenamy
Jennifer Ramlet
Juanita Willaims-Jones
Kelly Jo Francisco
Glenna Zanaglio
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Krissy Brislin
Deborah Farris
Cheryl Hall
Tonya Velazquez
Lauren Bradley
Nai Merri
Geri Rus
Luis Vazquez
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Darbie Brown
Michelle Webb
Kayla Hernandez
Lauren Bradley
Leslie Wagner Hobson
5/31/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Deborah Farris
Kimberly Snyder
Jennifer Ramlet
Michelle Hughes
Jacqlyn Gummert
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Darbie Brown
Emilie Edwards
Mary Achio
Heather Marie Stacy
Cassandra Berholtz
Anna Nichols
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
LaKishia Wagers
Charlotte Dennis
Myranda Medlin
Brittany Marie Thompson
Mikey Mellor
Tonya Velazquez
Cassandra L. Penley
6/1/17
Jessica Miller
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Cheryl Hall
Jennifer Ramlet
Jacqlyn Gummert
Taschia Miller
Brittany Michelle
Jade Good
Kelly Jo Francisco
Nelle Bailey
Brittany Marie Thompson
Amanda Peters
Tera Wardrip
Misty Shallcross
Jonnalyn Gates
Michelle R. Carlino
Anggie Marie
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Shannon R Garrett
Brandy Williams
Traci Anderson
6/2/17
Daniela Hernandez
Valerie Kuehn
Christy Hawkes
Brittany Michelle
Tera Wardrip
Nitasha Shank
Jennifer Mason
Mary Achio
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Abby Cox
Deborah Farris
Nai Merri
Jennifer Lang
Emilie Edwards
Andrea Timms
Mya Murphy
Misty Dawn Moores
Sean Stover
Fitch Donna
Joanie Waterman
Bronnie Harrison
Stephanie Caldwell
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Sara Biason
Melinda Dreier
6/3/17
Deborah Farris
Juanita Williams-Jones
Jennifer Mapes
Kimberly Snyder
Shannon R Garrett
Priscilla Shimp
Nitasha Shank
Jackie Poole
Joleen Renee
Danii Muniz McGlothin
Lauren Bradley
Christina Montes
Nelle Bailey
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Susanne Killion
Laurie Griffith
Belinda Haas
Christine McKinnon
Dawn Raasch
6/4/17
Heather Marie Stacy
Brittany Whitley
Anna Nichols
Kathleen Hickman
Deborah Farris
Tonya Velazquez
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Mary Achio
Alisa Jones
Shannon R Garrett
Kayla Hernandez
Jodi Stevens
Phyllis Hines
Nelle Bailey
Valerie Kuehn
Lotorya Patrick
Eleazar Ruiz
Karyn Koehler
Carol Yemola
Dawn Miller Majors
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In 2016, there were 287 insurers who offered insurance on the Obamacare exchanges and in 2017 that number dropped to 218. There were 34 states that saw the number of insurers decline, 15 states have the same amount of insurers from 2016 to 2017 and only one state added an insurer in 2017.
Five states, ALABAMA, ALASKA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH CAROLINA, and WYOMING, have only one insurer operating on the exchanges, leaving consumers with little choice. 
In one-third of counties in the United States, about one in five enrollees, or 21 percent, have access to only one insurer operating on the exchanges. This is a significant increase from the 2 percent of enrollees in 7 percent of counties that had access to only one insurer last year.
“In 2017, insurance company losses led to a number of high profile exits from the market,” the study explains. “In 2017, 58% of enrollees (living in about 30% of counties) had a choice of three or more insurers, compared to 85% of enrollees (living in about 63% of counties) in 2016.”
As larger commercial insurers such as Aetna and United Healthcare have dropped out of Obamacare, many areas will only have regional insurers to choose from, said Ed Haislmaier, an expert in health care policy at the Heritage Foundation.
“The reality is that the individual market even pre-Obamacare was a very small part of their business,” said Haislmaier. “So those companies have basically dropped out and what that leaves are a couple of companies with broader footprints but not more than about 10 or 12 states.”
“What you’re down to is basically in most cases your dominant Blue Cross plan and then depending on the size and location you may have regional players and by regional it could mean either across two or more states or just within a state,” he said. 
Haislmaier and the Heritage Foundation, who originally created the methodology for this type of study earlier this year, said that the ‘Affordable’ Care Act has left consumers with less competition and choice than ever before.
“One of the stated aims of the ‘Affordable’ Care Act was to increase competition among health insurance companies,” said Haislmaier.
“That goal has not been realized, and by several different measures the ACA’s exchanges offer less competition and choice in 2017 than ever before. Now in the fourth year of operation, the exchanges continue to be far less competitive than the individual health insurance market was before the ACA’s implementation.”
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said that Congress needs to repeal and reform Obamacare without delay. 
“The Obamacare death spiral is continuing,” she said. “As rates rise, healthy people drop out and the share of sick people rise, causing further increases in rates. Since these rates are capped then the insurance business becomes less profitable and companies leave the business.”
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Members of the Trump administration and Pentagon officials are pushing for the deployment 3,000 to 5,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. There are currently about 8,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Officials are also looking for the relaxation of restrictions on launching airstrikes. The recommendation comes after the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, warned the war has reached a stalemate. Trump is expected to decide whether to approve the deployment of additional troops later this month.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Kabul to speak with Nicholson just days after an attack by a Taliban-affiliated militants killed 140 Afghan troops, most of whom were unarmed in a mosque praying at their base. The Pentagon’s proposal is aimed at countering the resilient Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan by adding thousands more troops closer to combat and bombarding the Taliban with airstrikes. Army General John Nicholson told the Senate the security situation had deteriorated. If approved, the decision would allow U.S. troops to partner with Afghan forces closer to the fight rather than just playing an advisory role.
The Pentagon had been focused on ending its presence in Afghanistan since 2001 but after the September 11th attacks, U.S. forces, with 100,000 troops deployed-helped topple the Taliban government that had given shelter to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
With the end of the combat mission “Enduring Freedom” and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the United States had pulled out most its troops in late 2014. The Obama administration decided to leave a force of about 13,000 troops in place after responding to pleas from U.S. Commanders. The 13,000 includes all active duty service personnel from all branches (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force), National Guard and Reserve as well as civilian employees of the Department of Defense and civilian contractors (APF) – which make up the smallest group.
There have been restrictions in place regarding how close Americans could accompany Afghan forces in combat and on bombing Taliban targets. Those rules were eased last year, and the Pentagon’s recent proposal would grant added authority for air strikes. The current NATO-led operation in Afghanistan is called “Resolute Support” and aims to train and advise the Afghan security forces. Sporadic combat operations are left to Special Forces. The U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan is America’s longest war and the Pentagon’s proposal means it won’t be ending any time soon.
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Mark Shuster, Owner/Partner, has a distinguished sales and management background and has been in the insurance industry for over 26 years.
He is licensed in 43 states, and has sold over $36 million in personally produced business, making him the highest producing health insurance agent in the history of a major Fortune 500 company, and at each of the companies he has recently been employed.
As the founding member of Health Insurance 4 Everyone, and as the owner/member of Health & Life Solutions, LLC, Mark oversees the sales, recruitment, and strategic planning needs for the company’s nationwide direct and telemarketing sales teams.
He has been instrumental in the start up and development of offices throughout the country, and has served as an industry spokesman and sales trainer, at each of the Fortune 500 companies where he was employed throughout his career. Mark’s experience and leadership provides his company with the skills and resources needed to set and achieve the highest sales and management goals in the industry.
His training and selling philosophy focuses on ensuring a “value package” of insurance products, keeping the customer’s needs in mind, which then results in increased long term customer retention standards.
His demonstrated success at providing unprecedented customer satisfaction, through the team he manages and leads, is unmatched within the industry.
Prior to entering his career in the insurance industry 26 years ago, he managed cable television and broadcast systems throughout the Midwest and the East Coast. He is a former aide to U.S. Senators, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and holds a Political Science Bachelor of Arts degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Corinne Kolasienski
Corinne Kolasienski, Owner/Partner, served as the Regional Team Leader at the company headquarters based in the Hartford, Connecticut area. She has a varied career in sales and management that spans close to 25 years in the insurance industry. She has served in positions of sales management, as Vice President of Sales, and just prior to joining the Health Insurance 4 Everyone team, served as the CEO of a company which she founded that provides corporate recognition programs, human resources, and customer service consulting in numerous industries around the country.
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She is recognized for her success in developing customer service support initiatives and in the training and development of sales teams throughout the United States. Corinne initially joined the company’s headquarters office as the Director of Personnel and Recruitment. She quickly moved up and became a founding member of the company’s new headquarters, providing the recruitment, training and development of the company’s fastest growing sales team, as awarded in 2008, 2009 and year-to-date in 2010.
She recently became a founding member of the management team for the new Health Insurance 4 Everyone Company which was restructured and incorporated in early 2010. She has distinguished herself as a role model in personal sales production, and has demonstrated her successful leadership skills in moving the newer team members quickly through the training process, and on to become “top closers” in the business. Corinne brings to the company a level of enthusiasm and professionalism that inspires her team members to set and then exceed their own personal production goals. She is one of the company’s most dynamic managers in bringing the sales teams a level of success unmatched by others in the industry.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, May 14th, 2017 was:
AMANDA THOMAS
Monroe, GA
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
5/8/17
Jade Good
Nikki Hunsaker
Heather Lynn Rood
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Paula Rivers
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Sara Harrison
Tracy Shafer
Fanny Wat
Rondi Clark-Conn
Nai Merri
Lauren Bradley
Carrie Strickland
Daniela Hernandez
Jennifer Leffler
Amanda Thomas
Hollie Jahnke
Tonya Velazquez
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Felicia Block
5/9/17
Emily Rice Bowersock
Sherri Kidwell
Kathi Taylor
Jennifer Leffler
Alexandria Fields
Kimberly Snyder
Sheila Carvell
Kathleen Hickman
Becca Dotsun
Stephanie Caldwell
Adaria Johnson
Ellen Ciambrelli Ferrari
Eva Biggs
Jade Good
Andrea Timms
Debbie Burke Garretson
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Derek Jennings
Susan Clarke Jette
Karen Bondehagen
Rebecca Fauteux
5/10/17
Sherri Kidwell
Tera Wardrip
Mary Achio
Tonya Velazquez
Nai Merri
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Dale Fish
Christina Domingue
Glenna Zanaglio
Alexandria Fields
Phyllis Hines
Priscilla Shimp
Kayla Clemons
Anna Nichols
Susanne Killion
Jennifer Lang
Lauren Bradley
Tina Marie
Raquel Perez-Espinal
Paula Rousseau
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Michelle R. Carlino
Christy Hawkes
5/11/17
Tonya Velazquez
Emily Rice Bowersock
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Crystal Dotson
Cheryl Hall
Sheila Carvell
Susan Clarke Jette
Jennifer Fremont
Phyllis Hines
Erica Hansen
Jakara Jackson
Kathleen Hickman
Stacy Ramirez
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Brandi Chaney
Kendra George
JoBeth Butcher
Kayla Clemons
Nai Merri
Jennifer Ramlet
5/12/17
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Cheryl Hall
Nitasha Shank
Crystal Dotson
Jennifer Ramlet
Brooke Scott
Jennifer Lang
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Tonya Velazquez
Mikayla Oakes
Teena Sierson
Michelle Hughes
Susan Clarke Jette
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Alexis Maureen
Jamie Shapiro
Kathleen Hickman
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Kellie Lacy
Samantha Brwn
Dean Bruss
Jakara Jackson
Anggie Marie
Sheila Carvell
5/13/17
Tracy Shafer
Jonnalyn Gates
Mary Ann Cody
Lotorya Patrick
Christy Hawkes
Nelle Bailey
Sheila Carvell
Karen Bondehagen
Nitasha Shank
Jade Good
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Kendra George
Jennifer Downing
Juanita Williams-Jones
Michelle Hughes
Brittany Michelle
Kimberly Snyder
Tera Wardrip
Myranda Medlin
Paula Rousseau
Tonya Velazquez
5/14/17
Deborah Farris
Tera Wardrip
Joleen Renee
Allison Frederick
Nikki Hunsaker
Michelle Webb
Sarah Harrison
Misty Shallcross
Michelle Hughes
Heather Lynn Rood
Charlotte Dennis
Lotorya Patrick
Chris Maxwell
Alicia Smith
Amanda Saltsman
Jennifer Mason
Angela Hendricks
Carrie Strickland
Paula Rousseau
Jennifer Downing
Melissa Turner Baker
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. You may also find that if you “Like” both of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, April 30th, 2017 was:
JENNIFER LANG
No. Miami Beach, FL
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
4/24/17
Valerie Kuehn
Jodi Stevens
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Brandy Marie Williams
Kassi Krick-King
Samantha Mer
Jennifer Lang
Jennifer Zarafino-Griffiths
Myranda Medlin
Cheryl Hall
Amanda Saltsman
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Holly Cajigas
Mary Vantil
Abigail Edwards
Megan Akins
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Dawn Raasch
Karen Bondehagen
Susan Clarke Jette
4/25/17
Judy Custer
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Jennifer Sparks
Valerie Kuehn
Jennifer Mason
Chrissy Kim
Carol Yemola
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Jakara Jackson
Lotorya Patrick
Crystal Hazelwood
Tina Marie
Alexandria Fields
Misty Shallcross
Nai Merri
Jonnalyn Gates
Anna Nichols
Holly Cajigas
Julie Garrett
Bea Patrick
4/26/17
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Michelle Cervantes
Joanie Waterman
Carol Scheive
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Dawn Raasch
Alexis Maureen
Jennifer Ramlet
Nitasha Shank
Karen Bondehagen
Christy Hawkes
Brandy Marie Williams
Kimberly Snyder
Kayla Clemons
Jennifer Lang
Geri Rus
Julie Garrett
Hollie Jahnke
Cheryl Hall
Megan Rhyne
Jennifer Downing
Angela Nicole
Jean Simmons Homfeld
4/27/17
Karen Bondehagen
Crystal Dougherty Merrill
Geraldlee Lee
Cheryl Hall
Hollie Jahnke
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Mary Achio
Paula Rivers
Stephanie Caldwell
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Marie Beauregard
Melissa Barnes Walker
Anne Hanson
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Amanda Kyrie’ Ayala
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Phyllis Hines
Jakara Jackson
Shelley Ann Peoples
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Misty Dawn Moores
Dale Fish
Anggie Marie
4/28/17
Cheryl Hall
Brittany Marie Thompson
Lotorya Patrick
Mary Perez Ramz
Nai Merri
Mary Ann Cody
Lauren Bradley
Sherri Kidwell
Bea Patrick
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Melissa Barnes Walker
Michelle Hughes
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Tina Marie
Alexandria Fields
Allison Frederick
Karen Rimiller Presley
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Marcy Coull
Kathleen Hickman
Tonya Velazquez
4/29/17
Christine McKinnon
Karen Bondehagen
Beata Tybor
Kathleen Hickman
Amanda Saltsman
Tonya Velazquez
Brittany Marie Thompson
Juanita Williams-Jones
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Holly Cajigas
Brittany Deaver
Nelle Bailey
Christina Montes
Misty Dawn Moores
Jacqlyn Gummert
Nikki Bankert
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Hollie Jahnke
Trish Marks
Bobbie J Rittenhouse
Phyllis Hines
4/30/17
Tina Marie
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Deborah Farris
Jennifer Kinner
Valerie Kuehn
Jennifer Ramlet
Michelle R. Carlino
Althea Thomas
Jennifer Alice Duran
Mary Vantil
Kayla Clemons
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Hollie Jahnke
Sherri Kidwell
Christy Hawkes
Jade Good
Jennifer Downing
Phyllis Hines
Wendi Black
Crystal Hazelwood
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. You may also find that if you “Like” both of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
—————————————————————-
At Health Insurance 4 Everyone, we not only want to improve our customer service but also interact with our customers on a social media level that wasn’t available before. Interested in connecting with us? Look us up on….
Twitter: Healthinsurane4 (Follow Us On Twitter To Receive Faster Notifications When Daily Trivia Questions Posted, & To Be Immediately Notified When Weekly AmEX & HI4Eshop Gift Card Winners Are Announced!!)
Click-On for LinkedIn To Follow Our Posts: LinkedIn
Like us on facebook: HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions, LLC
Over 54,000 Combined Fans/Followers To Our Social Media Sites, & We’re Growing Daily!
Follow Mark Shuster, Founder/Owner at Health & Life Solutions, LLC for daily health tips!
Mark Shuster FaceBook Link
Follow our word press blog and read about everything from health insurance and reform news to healthy living and current events! 
Company Blogs
Find out more about our corporate partner which gives you the power to talk to an attorney about any legal issue, and offering high-quality Identity Theft plans.
LegalShield
Read more
