Three friends with beautiful, sexy, womanly bodies have body image problems. Maybe this has something to do with it: http://ping.fm/5JDX2 # is now bored by the PP issue. Have more than 3 to think about it? Get busy on health care, energy, net neutrality or the PA State Senate. # Continue reading
It wasn’t much fun. Indeed for most of the time it was excruciatingly boring. But it was an interesting experience and I learned something from my almost fifteen hours in the lockup at police district 9. Of course, I could have learned most of this in a shorter period of time. If they ever give opportunities to be jailed for, say, three hours tops, you should grab it. Continue reading
Click here to send a fax to your Members of Congress and let them know that you consider the insurance industry to be engaged in criminal behavior. Dennis Short Joan Kosloff, Michael Ladson, Ray Torres and I were arrested yesterday at 12:30 pm for blocking the doors to CIGNA’s world headquarters in Philadelphia today. The fourteen hours I was in jail were not much fun—although it was a day in the park compared to the suffering that insurance companies in America regularly deal out not only to those they refuse to insure and but those they do insure. The crowded cell, noise, stench, stale air, and hard steel bench were not were not really conducive to thought. But I had time on my hands and spent some of it thinking about how to explain, especially to those of you who may have had some doubts about our action, why we turned… Continue reading
Michael Ladson, Joan Kosloff, Dennis Short, Marc Stier, Ray Torres Today we were arrested for blocking the doors to the offices of the CIGNA Insurance Companies world headquarters in Philadelphia. Taking this action was not easy for us. Most of us have been political activists for many years but some of us have never been arrested before and for others of us, it has been a very long time since we felt so strongly about an issue that we were moved to take part in civil disobedience. A decent respect for the law and our fellow citizens leads me to explain why we are taking this action today. All of us believe that the law should be broken only when doing so is a means to preventing a great evil. We are acting on that principle. The laws that regulate the health insurance industry need to be reformed in… Continue reading
Today, Tuesday, October 6, at 11:30 am at 1601 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia to we are going back to CIGNA’s world head quarters in Philadelphia to protest business practices that deny people insurance coverage and health care and their political efforts to block health care reform. A few of us are going to risk arrest by blocking the doors to CIGNA’s lobby. We need as many of you as possible to join us and show support for this action. Please RSVP here. We are not eager to engage in civil disobedience. We have been organizing for months, built a huge campaign and have had a clear impact on our Senators and Representatives. But what we have seen in the last few months from the opponents of health care reform, who are partly financed by health insurance companies, is a campaign of deceit, lies and distortions. Continue reading
went walking in a light rain in the city and driving with the windows down in the country today. Two of my favorite things to do. # Maybe when this health care campaign is over I’ll be over to go to a movie on Friday night and not fall asleep in the middle. # Continue reading
The Comcast-NBC merger is such a terrible idea from the perspective of consumers that I think we have to fight it. But I’m so certain that Comcast in the long run will make an utter hash of the deal that I almost want to see it go through. The very thing that makes the deal sensible for Comcast—and bad for us—in the short run is exactly what will make it a disaster for Comcast in the long run. Comcast has made it’s money by using its political and economic power to generate monopoly profits. It fears losing that monopoly and wants to use its cash reserves to create a new monopoly. It shouldn’t be allowed to do so. But if it does, the company is utterly unsuited to running businesses that operate in a competitive world and that mangage creative talent. It is likely to fail at doing so. Continue reading
In rallies, media events, press conferences, blogs and op-ed pieces, we are making it clear to the American people that if the insurance companies win, we all lose. That effort is bearing fruit. Despite the disappointing action of the Senate Finance Committee, pressure for the public health insurance option is building. Polls show strong support for the public option. A majority of the Senate is now clearly in favor. And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is working to figure out how to move a public option through the complicated Senate procedures has said that the final health bill will have a public option. See http://www.lvrj.com/news/breaking_news/Reid-Final-health-bill-will-have-… But to make that happen we need to keep the pressure on. So I’m asking you to come out on Tuesday, October 6, at 11:30 am at 1601 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia to join us as we declare CIGNA’s world head quarters a crime… Continue reading
Pennsylvania Health Care for America Now Continues To Protest Cigna Cigna Victim Stacie Ritter to Seek Help from CEO H. Edward Hanway at his mansion in Media, PA Action Corresponds with New Television Ad Contrasting Insurance CEO’s Fancy Home with Average Foreclosed Home Due To Medical Bankruptcy **Watch the new ad and Stacie Ritter talking about her situation and plan for today here: HealthCareforAmericaNow.org/Mansion** Continue reading
On Tuesday September 22, HCAN, in over a hundred events around the country, thousands of people took time off to say Big Insurance: Sick of It. They say that they are angry insurance companies for denying people care and coverage, for paying their employees more to deny care, and for using our premiums to lobby Congress in opposition to health care reform and a public health insurance option. In Pennsylvania, we had well attended events in Philadelphia, Williamsport, Erie, and Pittsburgh. Created with flickr slideshow. Over 750 people from Philadelphia and its suburbs rallied, chanted and marched in support of health care reform. They came together to demand that CIGNA and other health insurance companies stop denying care and coverage to Americans and end their opposition to real reform that includes a public health insurance option. Continue reading