Day: October 14, 2009

Businesses often do things that harm innocent people or the public. But the health insurance industry is the only business in America that ties to increase its profits by deliberately targeting people who are sick or likely to be sick. Dawn Smith has a rare but treatable brain tumor and health insurance with CIGNA. But CIGNA has been denying her the health care she needs. And recently, CIGNA raised the co-pay for her pain medication from $10 to $1000. Dawn has traveled from Atlanta to Philadelphia in a mobile home to demand a meeting with CIGNA’s CEO, Ed Hanway. A rally with Dawn will take place tomorrow, Thursday, October 15 at noon at CIGNA’s headquarters at 2 Liberty Place (16th St and Chestnut St). Can you take a few minutes to join us in support of Dawn! RSVP here. The actions we are doing here are making the case, throughout… Continue reading

We got a fair amount of press coverage of our civil disobedience action last week. And people also posted video of most of the event. There was a good report about the campaign in general I the Philadelphia Inquirer There was a radio report on KYW Local TV coverage Coverage of HCAN protest & arrests at CIGNA: NBC 10, 5 pm, 10/6/09 Coverage of HCAN protest & arrests at CIGNA: Fox 29, 5 pm, 10/6/09 Blog posts on FireDogLake http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8795 http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8784 Two of our blog posts explaining what we did and why: http://blog.hcanpa.org/?p=204 http://blog.hcanpa.org/?p=206 YouTube Overview of event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI56EMceY50 More Complete Video coverage on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSlK3w6Vw08&feature=related Rally followed by Introduction by Marc Stier and stories about insurance company abuses. Stacie Ritter telling her story, Joan Kosloff talking about her son, Eric Julian Aycox , Michael Ladson talking about his younger brother Samuel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TroigMwRgNI Dawn Smith’s story told by Ray Torres… Continue reading