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I currently don't have health insurance
for two reasons.
One of them is
plainly, a lack of knowledge.
The second reason is a lack of
urgency to gain the knowledge if that makes sense.
My name is Davya Dyce and I am in the special events industry
and I am an event producer.
Event production is tons and tons of fun. I've been doing it for
as long as I can remember.
From planning the family birthday party to
quarter-million dollar events that I plan, so I've come a long way for sure.
It's a lot of energy and you definitely kick into gear and you stay in that gear
and just go, go, go until the event is over pretty much and then the next day you sort of
put everything together and have it make sense for your wrap-up.
So it's a lot of running around, it's a lot of planning, a lot of coordinating
people, it's
tons of fun. I wouldn't trade it for the world. It gets stressful at times but that's part of the job.
I do tend to put
health and wellness
on the back burner
a lot of times when I'm working.
Like I said, you really kick into gear and you stay in that one gear
from the time
you start planning an event until it's done. It just takes every morsel of your energy
so a lot of times...I'll give you an example. Sometimes when I'm on set, I
oftentimes forget to eat.
I don't know why I do it. I know it's not good but
when you're passionate about something you tend to
sort of
be "all in."
It is what it is.
My main job as the owner of Zahzi Inc. and
a senior event producer is to bring in clients.
Literally I'm on the phone all day calling people, getting people what they
need.
Sales
and pitching...
In the unfortunate event that I'm ever sick or unable to work or unable to
you know
stay glued to an iPhone
for an entire month
my business would
severely be effected because as a small business, I drive this thing.
You can imagine how that would be detrimental to a business that relies on
bringing in clients.
It'ss always like, right here in the back of your brain...like an abyss
or like a black hole or purgatory. I would consider it purgatory because you always
think about "What if?"
you know what I mean? That one time you get a headache you think is this a headache
or is this a brain aneurysm?
And you like, "what if this happens?" What is going to happen to me?
I don't want to think about that.
It's scary.
Another
sort of
emotional feeling that I have attached to not having health insurance
is
I am
a leader
of a company and
I set an example for my team and the people that you know,
ride for me day to day.
If as the leader you're not taking care of yourself, it kind of
sets a different mood for everyone else and
God forbid something did happen and everything that you bring to the
table day-to-day you know sort of
gets cut off
I'd really need to start thinking about
health insurance and
you know, what my plan B is going to be.
The entire industry so convoluted. You hear so many different
things or
packages that you should get or HMO or PPO. I mean what the
Heck even is that?
Or you know, the
ACA and Obamacare
and all of these things and like,
80% of small businesses don't have health insurance and they're not gonna be
affected by ACA but they could be and it's like
there's just so much information and it comes from so many different viewpoints and so many different
biases
that it's almost like you have to sit down
sort through it all. Every young person, why don't we know about health insurance?
Is it because older people have to go through the motions and they've been sick a couple
times and a have to learn it or...
those are the types of things I ask myself. Like, why isn't this something I know? I mean, I can code programs
and do all kinds of
difficult "brain thinking things" but something simple like
find out about health insurance then get some
is something that I put off. I don't want initials or acronyms
Just tell me what it is and how it affects me and how I can get it. You know what I mean?