Thrive! – Building A Thriving Future for All Forever

Creating and Sustaining Large, Positive Change. Building and Sustaining a Thriving Future for All Forever.

June 21, 2012 • 12:31 pm 0

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT CAN AND SHOULD STAND AND BE BETTER

Much good will be lost if the Affordable Care Act shall fall but much good continues with or without the mandate.
If the mandate stands, the ACA can and should stand. Not perfect but better than where we have been. We have much work to do on affordability for people and payers, including the American taxpayer.
If the mandate falls, the ACA still can and should stand. Not perfect but still better.
Some of us who wrote major reform bills going back to the 1980s did so without a mandate. Challenging but still better than where we have been.
ACA needs to be improved, as any major reform bill. That should be our future focus.

Gary Christopherson, Founder, HealthePeople, http://www.HealthePeople.com
Former DoD Health Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Veterans Health CIO, CMS Senior Advisor

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April 4, 2012 • 10:47 am 0

My New Book: Thrive! – Building A Thriving Future

Alert! - Heads up on my new book – “Thrive! – Building a Thriving Future”. Available in paperback/Kindle @ www.Amazon.com or free download @ www.ThrivingFuture.org. Is a call for action and a manual for positive change and a thriving future. “Thrive!” helps people who want to create and sustain large, positive and timely change for themselves, their community, their nation and their world. “Thrive!” helps people build a better and thriving future.

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February 20, 2012 • 5:20 am 0

Thrive! Strategy for Building a Sustained, Thriving Future

A successfully developed and executed Thrive! strategy increases the likelihood that, on a sustained basis, people a) successfully behave so as to survive and thrive and b) successfully avoid behaving so as to not survive and thrive. This is the key for achieving a sustained, thriving future for all forever. Longer versions and more info at www.ThrivingFuture.org or in Thrive! – Building a Thriving Future @ Amazon.com

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February 20, 2012 • 4:20 am 0

HealthePeople – Build Healthy And Thriving Future

Alert! – The 2010 health reform law provides progress for America. But, it fails to cover all key issues, is under attack, and faces a very challenging implementation.
Action! – “HealthePeople – Building a Healthy and Thriving Future” addresses current programs, the 2010 health reform law, the remaining gaps and the execution challenges.

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February 20, 2012 • 3:30 am 0

Vulnerable In America – We Feel And Are Vulnerable

Alert! – In America and in the world today, we are all vulnerable to some greater or lesser extent. We hold that in common. Follow the news. Start with one of the 43.6 million Americans, one in seven, who are now in poverty. Nearly four million more than in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 19, 2012 • 10:07 am 0

New Book Chapter – Creating and Sustaining Change

Alert! – Heads up about new book on transforming American governance. Includes my chapter, “Creating and Sustaining Change.” See www.viaFuture.org Transforming American Governance: Rebooting the Public Square. Edited by: Balutis; Buss; Ink. Read the rest of this entry »

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January 24, 2012 • 12:00 pm 0

Reduce Vulnerability in America/world

Alert! – In America and in the world today, we are all vulnerable to a greater or lesser extent. Walking the streets and roads, you see it in our faces and hear it in our voices.
Action! – We need to minimize vulnerability via policies and politics that systematically stop forces that push us down to more vulnerable states and support forces that lift us out of vulnerability. “Vulnerable in America (via)” is a strategy to minimize vulnerability that has applicability within and outside of America. www.VulnerableInAmerica.org

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January 24, 2012 • 9:27 am 0

Thrive! Vision – Thriving Future for Each and All

Action! – Our common vision should be to survive and thrive as individuals and a people. Our common mission should be to build that survivable and thriving future for each and all of us. Separately, we will fail. Together, we can succeed. Today is the day we should join together and begin building a thriving future. www.ThrivingFuture.org
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January 24, 2012 • 5:53 am 0

Nonpartisan action for American dream & thriving

Action! – What we need is a joint nonpartisan commitment to fulfilling the American dream and building a thriving America. It has happened before. It can and must happen again. Now is the time.
Let me respectfully suggest to Republicans, Democrats and Independents that our joint nonpartisan “mission” should be to build a better future and our joint nonpartisan “vision” should be to achieve a positive, sustainable, thriving future.
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January 23, 2012 • 2:32 pm 0

99% for Building Sustainable, Thriving Future

Alert! – In the frustrations of the 99%, there is much to be against. Creating large, positive and sustainable change requires much to be for. What we hold in common is our need to survive and desire to thrive.
Action! – One potential vision and mission around which the 99% can organize is “Thrive! – Building a Sustainable, Thriving Future”. www.ThrivingFuture.org

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January 23, 2012 • 10:35 am 0

Nonpartisan Commitment to America’s Vulnerable.

Action! – So while we cannot back off on covering people in need, there are two steps we all need to take. First, we need to get more people back to work in productive and rewarding work as soon as possible. Second, we need to make and keep health care affordable without sacrificing quality and access. Both are feasible if we have the will. America’s leaders at the national and State levels need to make and deliver on a nonpartisan commitment to make that happen and now.
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January 23, 2012 • 5:48 am 0

Endangered American Dream. Build Thriving Future.

A survivable future? A thriving future? Americans desperately need and want both!
Will America get it? That is the question.
The 2012 elections will be about today’s and tomorrow’s pain and fear.
Today we must end the pain and reject the fear. Partisanship must end. Nonpartisanship must lead and govern.
Tomorrow must be about a survivable, thriving future. Tomorrow must be about recovering and delivering the American dream.

Gary Christopherson, Founder, viaFuture, http://www.ThrivingFuture.org

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January 23, 2012 • 4:59 am 0

Bumper Sticker: Deliver American Dream! Thrive!

Alert! – Let me suggest two potential nonpartisan bumper stickers for America (and for the political parties). “Deliver the American Dream!” “America Thrive!”
As we look around America and the world, much of what is important to us is already broken or is endangered, much of it unnecessarily so.
Backing up these bumper stickers should be a joint nonpartisan commitment to fulfilling the American dream and building a thriving America. It has happened before. It can and must happen again. Now is the time.
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January 22, 2012 • 10:02 am 0

People for repealing health reform don’t get it

Alert! – People who have made it their mission to repeal health reform don’t get it. Look around you. Talk to your family, your neighbors and your co-workers. Ask them if they feel secure when it comes to the current state of health insurance. Talk to a person who is uninsured. Talk to a person at risk if and when they lose their job. Talk to a person who is underinsured and faces bankruptcy from a major, costly illness.
Action! – The answer is not repeal. The challenge is to make it better. Read the rest of this entry »

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January 22, 2012 • 5:08 am 0

Preventing/Reducing Recession-Based Vulnerability

Alert! – Whenever and however this recession ends, a critical question remains. How do we prevent the extraordinary vulnerability felt during this recession? That real and perceived vulnerability created huge ripple effects across not only the economy but the whole fabric of American life.
The challenge for President Obama and the rest of America’s leadership is the future toward which we build. Read the rest of this entry »

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About Thrive!®

Thrive! - Building A Thriving Future For All Forever - www.ThrivingFuture.org - strives to support and create and sustain large, positive and timely change and build and sustain a thriving future forever for all (for people, “communities” (local, states, nations) and world)).

Thrive! is a great need coupled with an aspiration, a vision, a mission and a call for action. It strives to energize and empower a vast, sustained human endeavor building a thriving future for all forever.