Day: October 7, 2009

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