{"id":693,"date":"2009-10-01T21:15:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stier.net\/?p=693"},"modified":"2011-07-23T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T22:04:54","slug":"action-today-at-cigna-ceo-main-line-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Action Today at CIGNA CEO Main Line Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania Health Care for America Now <\/strong><\/p>\n

Continues To Protest Cigna <\/strong><\/p>\n

Cigna Victim Stacie Ritter to Seek Help from CEO
\n<\/em>H. Edward Hanway at his mansion in Media, PA<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Action Corresponds with New Television Ad Contrasting Insurance CEO\u2019s Fancy Home with Average Foreclosed Home Due To Medical Bankruptcy <\/em><\/p>\n

**Watch the new ad and Stacie Ritter talking about her situation and plan for today here: HealthCareforAmericaNow.org\/Mansion<\/a>**<\/em><\/p>\n

Philadelphia, PA<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>– As health insurance companies spend $641,000 a day to oppose meaningful health care reform, Health Care for America Now<\/a> (HCAN) – the nation\u2019s largest health care campaign \u2013 is continuing its effort to show Americans that that if the insurance companies win, we all lose.<\/p>\n

\u00a0On Thursday October 1st<\/sup> at 1:45 pm, Stacie Ritter<\/strong> will visit the home of Cigna CEO H. Edward Hanway in Media, PA to seek the help from him that his company will not provide.\u00a0 Ritter\u2019s twin girls were afflicted with cancer at the age of 4, and Cigna refuses to cover the human growth hormone treatments they need to grow properly.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ms. Ritter was bankrupted by a combination of high COBRA payments and out of pocket expenses when her husband suffered a brief period of unemployment. She continues to suffer financial hardship due to the inadequacy of Cigna insurance. She is charged a co-payment of $440 every time she takes her children for follow up treatments with specialists at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia. Ms. Ritter also worries that as her children get older, Cigna will deny them the additional treatments they will need to live full lives as curing their cancer severely damaged their pituitary glands.<\/p>\n

\u00a0On Thursday, Ms. Ritter will ask Mr. Hanway if she can move into the carriage house of his Main Line mansion<\/strong>\u2014one of four homes he owns that together are worth more than $11 million. Cigna made $7.7 billion in profits from 2000-2008, and Mr. Hanway\u2019s compensation of $124 million during that period is, in part, a product of business practices that deny people the medical care and affordable coverage they need.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Also on Thursday, HCAN will launch\u00a0 a new national television and online advertising campaign that juxtaposes the plight of people like Stacie Ritter with the excessive wealth of health insurance CEOs like Edward Hanway.\u00a0 The television ad titled \u201cMansion\u201d will run in for two weeks in Philadelphia on local broadcast and cable television.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s action is part of HCAN\u2019s nationwide anti-insurance campaign called \u201cBig Insurance: Sick of it.\u201d<\/strong> HCAN is urging Congress to pass legislation that provides good, affordable health care with the choice of a public health insurance option which would give the private health insurance industry real competition and the American people real choice.<\/p>\n

WHO: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>PA Health Care for America Now, Stacie Ritter<\/p>\n

WHAT: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Visit of Stacie Ritter, Cigna victim, to the home of Cigna
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CEO H. Edward Hanway to correspond with new national advertising campaign. <\/em><\/p>\n

WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1005 Bent Road, Media, Pa, 19063<\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thursday October 1st<\/sup> \u00a0at 1:45 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u00a0Action Corresponds with New Television Ad Contrasting Insurance CEO\u2019s 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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-bb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}