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.
Our opponents have not been successful in stopping good health care reform legislation. But the charges and counter-charges have lead all of us to lose sight of the fundamental moral issue that should be at the heart of this debate.
The cause for which we fighting is a moral truth that is so hard and clear that it shines like a beautiful diamond struggling to be seen in a piece of black coal: everyone in America deserves good health care they can afford.
The way insurance companies do business today contradicts that principle and is fundamentally immoral. It is time to stop it.
So please come out to support those of us willing to risk arrest to stand up for this principle today.