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STAND UP AGAINST THE HEALTH INSURANCE BIG SHOTS ON JUNE 19
STAND UP AGAINST THE HEALTH INSURANCE BIG SHOTS ON JUNE 19
SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED/STAND UP AGAINST THE HEALTH
INSURANCE BIG SHOTS ON JUNE 19
Oread Daily http :// oreaddaily.blogspot,com /
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most
shocking and inhumane."
-------------Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
Tired of the talk about healthcare reform? Ever have a problem with
health insurance (or lack thereof)? Want to do something? June 19th
you can. There will be demonstrations in front of insurance companies
all over the country on that day challenging their control of our
healthcare system and demanding instead, a guaranteed national single
payer healthcare system. You can join with thousands of others around
the country for the National Day of Action Against Health Insurance
Companies in taking action to win a guaranteed national single-payer
healthcare system with no financial barriers to care in 2009.
Below are the cities and contact emails where demonstrations are
already being planned for June 19th.
San Francisco, Mosconi Center, dbechler@value,net ; bill gallagher
bgallagher@calnurses.org
Philadelphia and Camden, Cigna, Tom Knoche knocheberg@aol,com
Pittsburgh Highmark/Blue Cross/ Blue Shield-- Sandy Fox
sm2fox@yahoo,com
Minnetonka, MN, United Health Care-- Ann Patterson, ann p11@yahoo,com
and Joel Clemmer, joel@joelclemmer.org
Oklahoma City, Blue Cross/Blue Shield -- Reggie Cervantes
clipedwingangel@yahoo,com
Louisville, KY, Humana-- Kay Tillow, nursenpo@aol,com
Gainesville, Florida-- Mark Piotrowski, markp@floridalaborparty.org
Hartford, CT Aetna/Hartford, Lucille Rosenblatt,
IIrosenblatt@comcast,net .
Chicago, IL Blue Cross/Blue Shield -- Jill nolachicago@gmail,com and
Donna Smith, dsmith1119@hotmail,com
Indianapolis, IN, Wellpoint-- Cindy Calley, home@calleys.org
San Antonio, TX, Humana Insurance Co, 6:00 p.m.-- Jane Lee Cantu,
janelee@satx.rr,com
Newark, NJ, Blue Cross -- Ray Stever rayiuc@aol,com
Atlanta, Blue Cross/Blue Shield-- Margie Rece msrece@yahoo,com
New York City: Billy Wharton,Email: noprivatization@yahoo,com
Phone: (718) 869-2279 Rally at the GHI office (34th & 9th) and march
to United Healthcare (33rd and 8th Ave)
St. Louis, MO. Julia Lamborne, Julia0409@aol,com
Albany, NY, Leo O'Brien Federal Building at 5 p.m. The sponsor: the
Capital District Coalition-- contact : Mike
Keenan;mikekeenan@pefencon.info
Boston, Contact Rand Wilson-- rand@mindspring,com
For more information email info@healthcare-now.org.
I got to tell you the opportunity to take on the health insurance
moguls head on sound not only like a good thing, but damn fun to boot.
How many have suffered and died for no real reason except to line
these bastards pockets?
You and I both know that we can't count on the pols to do the job for
us (hell they've been talking about universal health care since
Truman). It never works that way. It takes mass action to get anything
done in this country of ours.
We don't need some scheme developed out of conversations with health
insurance executives. We need a single payer system right now. That
won't come from sitting down at the table and chatting. That will come
when the people in their millions finally stand up and scream, "We're
sick and tired of being sick and tired."
June 19ths action sounds like one place to start.
The following call to action comes from the California Nurses
Association.
Healthcare Activists Plan June 19th as National Day of Action Against
Health Insurance Companies
Thousands to Gather in San Francisco and Around Country as 38,000
Insurance Industry Executives Meet for Annual AHIP Convention
Nurses, Doctors, Patients, Consumer Activists Call for Guaranteed,
Single-Payer Healthcare—“Patients Not Profits”
Seeking an end to the healthcare crisis that is destroying American
lives and families, thousands of healthcare activists will descend on
San Francisco and on cities around the country this June 19th as part
of an unprecedented national day of protests against health insurance
corporations—and in support of guaranteed, single-payer healthcare,
the “Medicare for All” system succeeding in nearly every other
industrialized democracy. The protests will demand a healthcare system
focused on patients, not profits, and are being coordinated by the
Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Healthcare, a coalition group
representing hundreds of thousands of members. Learn more at
www .GuaranteedHealthcare.org.
The national day of action is timed in conjunction with the annual
convention of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the insurance
industry lobbying group dedicated to blocking healthcare reform.
Cities that headquarter major health insurance companies will host
local actions as part of the national day of protest. Activists are
planning events in Chicago, the base of Blue Cross/Blue Shield;
Philadelphia, base of CIGNA; Hartford, base of AETNA; Louisville, KY,
base of Humana; Minnetonka, MN, base of United Health Group, and
elsewhere.
WHAT: Thousands Protest Insurance Companies in San Francisco,
nationwide
WHEN: Thursday, June 19th, 12 Noon
WHERE: San Francisco, CA—4th St. @ Howard St.
The Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Healthcare is composed of
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
(CNA/NNOC), Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare Now!,
and Progressive Democrats of America, working in coalition with the
California School Employees Association, the American Medical Students
Association, the California Universal Healthcare Organizing Project,
the Courage Campaign, United Educators San Francisco, AFT 2121-4, and
Senior Action Network.
Malinda Markowitz, RN, a member of the Council of Presidents of CNA/
NNOC said, “We are calling a national protest against these insurance
companies because they profit by denying care to our patients—not by
providing it. The American people are ready for guaranteed healthcare,
through great bills like Rep. John Conyer’s HR 676, and we will no
longer let insurers and politicians block progress and maintain an
unworkable status quo.”
SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED/STAND UP AGAINST THE HEALTH
INSURANCE BIG SHOTS ON JUNE 19
Oread Daily http :// oreaddaily.blogspot,com /
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most
shocking and inhumane."
-------------Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
Tired of the talk about healthcare reform? Ever have a problem with
health insurance (or lack thereof)? Want to do something? June 19th
you can. There will be demonstrations in front of insurance companies
all over the country on that day challenging their control of our
healthcare system and demanding instead, a guaranteed national single
payer healthcare system. You can join with thousands of others around
the country for the National Day of Action Against Health Insurance
Companies in taking action to win a guaranteed national single-payer
healthcare system with no financial barriers to care in 2009.
Below are the cities and contact emails where demonstrations are
already being planned for June 19th.
San Francisco, Mosconi Center, dbechler@value,net ; bill gallagher
bgallagher@calnurses.org
Philadelphia and Camden, Cigna, Tom Knoche knocheberg@aol,com
Pittsburgh Highmark/Blue Cross/ Blue Shield-- Sandy Fox
sm2fox@yahoo,com
Minnetonka, MN, United Health Care-- Ann Patterson, ann p11@yahoo,com
and Joel Clemmer, joel@joelclemmer.org
Oklahoma City, Blue Cross/Blue Shield -- Reggie Cervantes
clipedwingangel@yahoo,com
Louisville, KY, Humana-- Kay Tillow, nursenpo@aol,com
Gainesville, Florida-- Mark Piotrowski, markp@floridalaborparty.org
Hartford, CT Aetna/Hartford, Lucille Rosenblatt,
IIrosenblatt@comcast,net .
Chicago, IL Blue Cross/Blue Shield -- Jill nolachicago@gmail,com and
Donna Smith, dsmith1119@hotmail,com
Indianapolis, IN, Wellpoint-- Cindy Calley, home@calleys.org
San Antonio, TX, Humana Insurance Co, 6:00 p.m.-- Jane Lee Cantu,
janelee@satx.rr,com
Newark, NJ, Blue Cross -- Ray Stever rayiuc@aol,com
Atlanta, Blue Cross/Blue Shield-- Margie Rece msrece@yahoo,com
New York City: Billy Wharton,Email: noprivatization@yahoo,com
Phone: (718) 869-2279 Rally at the GHI office (34th & 9th) and march
to United Healthcare (33rd and 8th Ave)
St. Louis, MO. Julia Lamborne, Julia0409@aol,com
Albany, NY, Leo O'Brien Federal Building at 5 p.m. The sponsor: the
Capital District Coalition-- contact : Mike
Keenan;mikekeenan@pefencon.info
Boston, Contact Rand Wilson-- rand@mindspring,com
For more information email info@healthcare-now.org.
I got to tell you the opportunity to take on the health insurance
moguls head on sound not only like a good thing, but damn fun to boot.
How many have suffered and died for no real reason except to line
these bastards pockets?
You and I both know that we can't count on the pols to do the job for
us (hell they've been talking about universal health care since
Truman). It never works that way. It takes mass action to get anything
done in this country of ours.
We don't need some scheme developed out of conversations with health
insurance executives. We need a single payer system right now. That
won't come from sitting down at the table and chatting. That will come
when the people in their millions finally stand up and scream, "We're
sick and tired of being sick and tired."
June 19ths action sounds like one place to start.
The following call to action comes from the California Nurses
Association.
Healthcare Activists Plan June 19th as National Day of Action Against
Health Insurance Companies
Thousands to Gather in San Francisco and Around Country as 38,000
Insurance Industry Executives Meet for Annual AHIP Convention
Nurses, Doctors, Patients, Consumer Activists Call for Guaranteed,
Single-Payer Healthcare—“Patients Not Profits”
Seeking an end to the healthcare crisis that is destroying American
lives and families, thousands of healthcare activists will descend on
San Francisco and on cities around the country this June 19th as part
of an unprecedented national day of protests against health insurance
corporations—and in support of guaranteed, single-payer healthcare,
the “Medicare for All” system succeeding in nearly every other
industrialized democracy. The protests will demand a healthcare system
focused on patients, not profits, and are being coordinated by the
Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Healthcare, a coalition group
representing hundreds of thousands of members. Learn more at
www .GuaranteedHealthcare.org.
The national day of action is timed in conjunction with the annual
convention of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the insurance
industry lobbying group dedicated to blocking healthcare reform.
Cities that headquarter major health insurance companies will host
local actions as part of the national day of protest. Activists are
planning events in Chicago, the base of Blue Cross/Blue Shield;
Philadelphia, base of CIGNA; Hartford, base of AETNA; Louisville, KY,
base of Humana; Minnetonka, MN, base of United Health Group, and
elsewhere.
WHAT: Thousands Protest Insurance Companies in San Francisco,
nationwide
WHEN: Thursday, June 19th, 12 Noon
WHERE: San Francisco, CA—4th St. @ Howard St.
The Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Healthcare is composed of
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
(CNA/NNOC), Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare Now!,
and Progressive Democrats of America, working in coalition with the
California School Employees Association, the American Medical Students
Association, the California Universal Healthcare Organizing Project,
the Courage Campaign, United Educators San Francisco, AFT 2121-4, and
Senior Action Network.
Malinda Markowitz, RN, a member of the Council of Presidents of CNA/
NNOC said, “We are calling a national protest against these insurance
companies because they profit by denying care to our patients—not by
providing it. The American people are ready for guaranteed healthcare,
through great bills like Rep. John Conyer’s HR 676, and we will no
longer let insurers and politicians block progress and maintain an
unworkable status quo.”
