Making Health Care Work For Our Generation: Official Rules

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ELIGIBILITY: 

Subject to these Official Rules, the Open Mic is open only to (i) permanent legal U.S. residents physically residing in the fifty (50) United States of America and the District of Columbia, (ii) who are at least eighteen (18) years old as of the date of entry and (iii) who either have an existing PolicyMic account ("Account") or who connect PolicyMic to their Facebook account via Facebook Connect. Employees of PolicyMic, and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies and any other entity involved in the development or administration of this Open Mic, and their immediate family members or household members are not eligible to participate in the Open Mic. THE OPEN MIC IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW OR WHERE BONDING, REGISTRATION, OR OTHER REQUIREMENTS WOULD BE REQUIRED BUT HAVE NOT BEEN MET, OR WHERE THE METHODS OF ENTRY SET FORTH BELOW WOULD BE DEEMED CONSIDERATION. ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAWS APPLY.

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TIMING:

The Open Mic begins December 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time ("EDT") and ends December 11, 2013 at 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time ("EDT") (the "Open Mic Period").  The Open Mic consists of three (3) categories, Local Education, National Engagement, and Policy Proposals (each a "Category").

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Logging into your Account via Facebook Connect; and Going to http://www.policymic.com/open-mic/healthcare and following the instructions regarding entering a submission in an applicable Category.  In brief, each submission must include the following elements:

A title (90 max characters, including spaces ) A summary of your proposal (min 100 to max 1000 characters, including spaces)

An entrant can make at most one submission per Category, for a total of three submissions maximum.

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MODERATION & VOTING:

PolicyMic will review each submission to ensure it complies with these Official Rules and the PolicyMic Terms of Service http://www.policymic.com/articles/75387/mic-network-terms-of-service and reserves the right to provide light copy edits and headlines (but will not make any large substantive revisions to the submission).  PolicyMic reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject any submission for any reason or no reason at all.  PolicyMic expressly reserves the right to disqualify any submission(s) that it believes in good faith are generated by an automated means or scripts.  Submissions that are forged, altered, or generated by script, macro, or other automated means are void. 

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Other PolicyMic users (who have logged into PolicyMic via Facebook Connect) will be able to read each submission in each Category and vote for the ones they support. 

Voting for each respective Category closes as of 12:00 PM EST on December 11, 2013. Votes are counted by how many "Mics" (similar to an upvote) a submission has received in each Category.  This helps prevent a single Registered User from voting more than once per submission.  However, there is no limit with respect to the number of submissions a Registered User can vote for within a Category or across Categories.  For clarity, only Registered Users shall be able to vote on submissions to the Open Mic. 

Once the Voting Deadline has passed, PolicyMic will note the number of Mics received by each submission within that Category.  The submission with the most Mics in a Category will be sent to White House with a request for response.

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PRIZES:

The most Mic'd submission from each Category, that meets PolicyMic's approval, will be submitted to the White House, who may or may not respond by January 30, 2014.

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