Mar 05 2010
Arrest the Insurance Industry
The time for delay is over. The profit-driven insurance 
industry has shown time and again that they value profit over the lives of individuals and families all over the United States. Congress has a simple choice. Do they favor the insurance industry and their lobbyists or the American people?
It seems even simpler a choice when one considers that the House has already passed a health care bill by a majority and the Senate by a supermajority of 60 votes. The only remaining work is for the House to approve the Senate bill and to pass a small fix to budget-related items in the Senate bill through a simple, majority vote in the Senate and a majority in the House.
On Tuesday, March 9 the insurance industry is coming to D.C. to throw their premium-driven profits and lobbyists at health care reform that will address the three ‘A’s - affordability, accesibility and accountability.
From http://citizensposse.com/:
We need your help to put the insurance companies and every corporate enemy of change on notice: We will not allow the big corporations and their lobbyists to bully Congress into inaction.
We cannot let them win. We have come too far. We need Congress to listen to us, not the big insurance companies, the fat cats on Wall Street, the oil industry and the polluters, and the rest of the corporate lobbyists who stand in the way of a better America.
This is not simply about health care reform. It is about the agents of the status quo, with limitless funding, fighting every progressive issue with the same vigor as the last. We are asking you to assist us in every possible way.
- Join us in D.C. for a mass citizens’ arrest: 10:30 AM Tuesday, March 9 beginning at Dupont Circle.
- Show solidarity with the thousands in the streets by helping online: http://citizensposse.com/
- If you’re too busy to participate in D.C. or online or just want to support the grassroots and online organizing that make these events happen, you can donate here.
- Watch the below video featuring health insurance survivors describing why they came to D.C. in January to protest the Chamber of Commerce’s efforts to kill health reform and every other progressive issue:
You forgot to mention Single Payer to be included !!!!
[...] in San Francisco, wrote to us last week. She said she couldn’t make it to Washington, DC, for Tuesday’s mass citizens arrest of insurance industry lobbyists, but wanted to weigh in from her own perspective. Read her story [...]
After the Typhoon Katrina incident, we always make sure that our home is always insured that is why we always get premium home insurance. ”: