Sick of It--Rally Against Greedy For-Profit Health Industry
A loud, lively & highly visible health-care reform rally, sponsored by MoveOn.org, Health Care for America Now and labor unions, took place on Tues. outside of UnitedHealth Group, across from Penn Station.
'Big Insurance: Sick of It' was the theme & many people got up to speak including those who've suffered health-insurance abuses that continue to this day. The astounding percentage of denied claims is something that can no longer be ignored.
Makes you wonder: What is the ratio between denial of coverage & health insurance co.'s profits? It's obvious why those numbers are so hard to get hold of!
Heartening to see all the peeps w/their array of signs who joined in & used their lunch hour to show up & speak out against how the current health-care
industry puts profits before people. This need-for-greed system is directly responsible every year for literally killing Americans.
No surprise: WSJ lowballs number of rally goers--in fact, the crowd easily topped the 750 max. NYC had allotted. The put-upon insurance execs who had to endure the 'inconvenience' we caused, didn't seem especially moved by the grim scenarios being shared by folks--including those with coverage who learned the hard way exactly what those premiums were worth: not much!
Of course we have to consider the opposing POV and try to put ourselves in the others' shoes--yes, even avaricious insurance CEOs!
Thank you to Jim Gibson for letting us borrow his great 'Greedy' sign--which really says it all.
Labels: deaths due to lack of coverage, denial of claims, denial of coverage, health care as a human right, health-care reform, health-industry profits, public option, single-payer system, uninsured Americans
1 Comments:
Nice job Ms Cromwell, isn't it a shame that only the TEABAGGERS and the RUDE/Crude anti-healthcare protesters are newsworthy.
Luckily we have honest bloggers who cover these non-Newsworthy Story - alas if only a celebrity had died at the rally MSM might have noticed.
Long May Citizen Journalism Flourish!
RW Spisak
www.AveryVoice.com
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