Share five tips for making benefits planning simpler for a chance to get a $30 gift card

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Blogging Program - Be Smart About Your Health: Benefits Planning Made Simple

Learn how to get your health benefits plan working for you in one hour or less and share five tips on your blog, and you may receive a $30 Target gift card from Aetna.

While Americans are hearing more than ever about health care reform, this fall’s Open Enrollment season marks the first time that millions of people may need to make the connection between health reform and their own health benefits. According to a recent survey by Be Smart About Your Health, an online consumer education portal developed by Aetna, almost 70 percent of Americans say they’re paying more attention to what health benefits options are available because of the new health reform law.

According to the survey, health benefits choices can be difficult to understand. In fact, more than half of survey participants said reading Shakespeare is easier than reading their health insurance policy. Selecting health benefits still falls at the bottom of the “to-do” list. Survey respondents admitted they dread selecting their health benefits more than doing their taxes or cleaning. While Americans spend time clipping coupons and comparison shopping, they do not track health care spending.

Be Smart About Your Health gives people the tools and “know-how” to save time and money while making the best health decisions during Open Enrollment and throughout the year.

Be Smart About Your Health uses plain, everyday language and pulls respected and credible information offering:

Award winning Harvard Medical School content from Aetna InteliHealth®
Important tips and tools from Aetna’s popular Plan for Your Health campaign
Expert advice from the Financial Planning Association® on how to best manage health care spending
Key facts to help people stay up-to-speed on health care reform

Share your advice on how to cut through the confusion and make smart health benefits decisions.

How it works:
Access the Power of an Hour article by clicking here and blog at least five tips for how to make health benefits decisions in one hour or less.

We are looking for creative and authentic submissions of high quality. Create an original post on your blog, in 400 words or more (using your own words) and include a thoughtful introduction, original content within the body of your post, and a conclusion. Check your spelling and your grammar. You must also include the disclosure statement below in your post and install the campaign widget in the sidebar of your blog. Then follow the rest of the requirements below. We will select the first 50 qualifying submissions to receive a $30 Target gift card.

Highlights from your posts, tweets and tips will be collected and featured on http://besmartaboutyourhealth.twittermoms.com, and distributed across the web for all to see. The blogging program starts on October 26, 2010 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on November 24, 2010. We will contact the qualifying bloggers on or about November 24, 2010. Full terms and conditions are posted for your review at http://besmartaboutyourhealth.twittermoms.com/terms.

Rewards for Participating:
The first fifty qualifying participants will receive a $30 Target gift card. See Terms and Conditions.

Requirements:
To participate, we ask that you:

1. Create an original blog post on your blog, in 400 words or more, sharing five tips and information you learned from this article.

2. Please include a thoughtful introduction and conclusion in addition to tips. Give it plenty of thought, and include advice that your readers would like to hear about! Posts containing one-word tips will not be accepted. Each tip should be about 1-3 sentences long, really detailing your advice and perspective. Copying and pasting does not count. Don't copy another blogger's post or ideas.

3. Participants must include the following disclosure statement as a footnote of their post: “I wrote this blog post while participating in the TwitterMoms and Aetna blogging program, making me eligible to get a $30 Target gift card. For more information on how you can participate, click here.” (make sure you link to: http://besmartaboutyourhealth.twittermoms.com/about)

4. Install the campaign widget in the side bar of your blog: Get widget here

5. Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and send a tweet including a link to your blog post with the #BeSmartAboutYourHealth hashtag

6. Return to www.TwitterMoms.com and post a comment on this discussion page in the comments section below, including an active link to your blog post and a direct link to your Twitter tweet. (You can click on the date/time link below your tweet to get the direct link to your tweet)

Eligibility:
No purchase required to participate. You must be a legal resident of the United States, have a personal blog, be a registered user of www.twittermoms.com and www.twitter.com and be at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission. See Terms and Conditions.

About Aetna:
Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 35.8 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans. Our customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and expatriates. For more information, see www.aetna.com. To learn more about Aetna's innovative online tools, visit www.aetnatools.com.

About Be Smart About Your Health:
Be Smart About Your Health is a one-stop consumer health benefits educational resource from Aetna designed to help people discover more about their physical and financial health and health benefits. Launched in 2010, the website allows visitors to think like smart health care consumers, choose the right benefits, track spending, plan health care visits and live well to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The portal also houses recent health information from Aetna InteliHealth®, interactive tools and the latest updates on health reform. Be Smart About Your Health promotes a better understanding to help people make more informed health care decisions and to help consumers protect their health and their finances. www.BeSmartAboutYourHealth.com.

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Permalink Reply by Mommies with Cents on October 26, 2010 at 4:49pm

Thanks for the chance!

Post: http://www.mommieswithcents.com/?p=12761
Tweet: http://twitter.com/mommieswithcent/status/28838082124

Have a paid Twittermoms ad in sidebar.

Mindy & Holly
mommieswithcents at gmail dot com

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Permalink Reply by katherine bartlett on October 26, 2010 at 4:53pm

Thanks so much!
Post: http://ourwhiskeylullaby.blogspot.com/2010/10/power-of-hour.html
Tweet: http://twitter.com/KBWhiskey/status/28838344171

Have the widget in my sidebar.

Katherine Bartlett
katherine.bartlett@ymail.com

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Permalink Reply by Judy J on October 26, 2010 at 4:58pm

Thank you!

Post: http://www.healthbeautychildrenandfamily.com/2010/10/five-tips-for-...
Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/stayingyoung2/status/28838775727

Widget placed :)

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Permalink Reply by Alaina on October 26, 2010 at 5:02pm

Hello!

Here is my tweet!

Here is my post.

The widget can be found in the sidebar here.

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Permalink Reply by Tess Moody on October 26, 2010 at 5:06pm

http://reviewingmama2.blogspot.com/2010/10/have-you-thought-about-c...
http://api.twitter.com/sixfeetunder/status/28839620098

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Permalink Reply by Heather Manning on October 26, 2010 at 5:06pm

Here's my tweet - http://twitter.com/HeatherM74/statuses/28839597441
my post - http://digiscrapping.net/blog/2010/10/26/be-smart-about-your-health...

Got it in Firefox, in my sidebar now. :)

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Permalink Reply by Karen Puleski on October 26, 2010 at 5:07pm

I blogged here: http://practicalfrugality.blogspot.com/2010/10/5-tips-for-making-be...
Tweeted here: http://twitter.com/#!/KappaVelvit/status/28839619037

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Permalink Reply by Roxanne DeBord on October 26, 2010 at 5:09pm

Thanks for this opportunity! Here's a link to my blog post:
http://stinkermama.blogspot.com/2010/10/planning-for-future-thinkin...

I put the button widget on my right sidebar and here is my tweet
http://twitter.com/ChildrenTeach/statuses/28839730435

Thanks, Roxanne
childrenteachingmama at gmail dot com
http://stinkermama.blogspot.com

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Permalink Reply by Caren Haug on October 26, 2010 at 5:18pm

Hope I'm not late to the party!

Link to blog: http://livingononeincome.blogspot.com/2010/10/preparing-for-open-se...

Twitter (w/hashtag at end of blog post title) http://twitter.com/#!/PinchingAbe/status/28840533253

Widget is also installed.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Caren

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Permalink Reply by Rmgm on October 26, 2010 at 5:20pm

I wish I could participate in this one, but if I did I'm sure my post wouldn't be "quality". :( The entire process is overwhelming for me, so I wouldn't have much good advice to offer. I look forward to reading some knowledgable posts though!