Inspirational Civil Disobedience......

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from Healthcare for America Now!:




Taking it to the enemy: 6 arrested protesting UnitedHealth's criminal actions
Posted on October 6th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Take Action!

Six people were arrested in Minneapolis yesterday. Their crime? Interrupting UnitedHealth's "business as usual."

Reverend Grant Stevenson normally delivers his sermon at St. Mathew's Lutheran Church in St. Paul. This morning, he preached to more than 100 people in front of UnitedHealth, the nation's largest private health insurer. His topic had roots deep in the bible and social justice. "If they (UnitedHealth) win, the people who you care about, the people standing here, the people who you want to have health care will lose. "We need to send a message that it is not OK to profit on other people's misery. It is not OK to profit on other people's despair. It is not OK to profit when other people are living in fear and anxiety and not knowing they're actually going to get the basic care that they're going to need."

Protesters carried small green signs with names of people who had died or were suffering because they could not afford or were refused health care insurance. Six people sat down in the doorway of UnitedHealth and refused to move. Police warned the six and then arrested them.

Watch: http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/2009/10/06/taking-it-to-the-enemy-6-arrested-protesting-unitedhealths-criminal-actions/


And just what is that business as usual?

It's denying care your doctor says you need. It's paying employees bonuses for denying more care. It's making 2.9 billion dollars last year , money made by denying care. And it's using premiums - money paid by you and me so we can get the care we need when we need it - to lobby Congress against health care reform and against a public health insurance option that will force UnitedHealth to finally play by the rules.

UnitedHealth - and all health insurance companies - takes your money. They deny you the care you paid for. And because of our broken system, 45,000 die each year.

Who's the criminal in this situation, the people who blocked UnitedHealth's "business as usual," or UnitedHealth?

Around the country today, thousands of people are declaring health insurance offices a crime scene. I've taken the liberty to wrap UnitedHealth's website in crime scene tape, to drive the point home. (You can check out WellPoint's, CIGNA's, or AHIP's as well.)

While folks are out in the streets, putting their liberty on the line for this cause, can you pick up the phone and call your Senators? Tell them that its a crime when insurance companies deny our care, and that we need the provisions in the Senate HELP bill to make sure that we end up with a Senate health care bill that requires employers to pay their fair share for health care, that makes health care truly affordable for all Americans, and gives us all the choice of a public health insurance option.

Call your Senators right now at 1-877-264-4226.

Because this crime cannot continue.


http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/2009/10/06/taking-it-to-the-enemy-6-arrested-protesting-unitedhealths-criminal-actions/