Six Arrested For Stopping UnitedHealth “Business-As-Usual”
Press release from: Health Care For America Now. Minnesota HCAN Coalition Says Health Insurance System Set Up To Generate Profits While Failing To Provide Health Care and Denying Claims Minnetonka, MN – UnitedHealth Group, the nations largest private health insurer, was targeted Monday morning by over one-hundred members of the Minnesota contingent of the Health Care for America NOW (HCAN) coalition, including small business, labor, faith-based, and non-profit advocacy organizations. The group convened outside the doors of UnitedHealth Groups Minnetonka headquarters protesting the health insurers practice of denying care and claims in order to generate record profits. Six arrests were made after protesters refused to stop blocking the doors to the headquarters. Were here today to stop UnitedHealth Group from continuing its business practice of denying health coverage and insurance claims as the primary means of turning a profit, said Julie Schnell, President of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and one of those arrested. Enough is enough. The status quo is failing most Americans. The time has come for Congress to ensure we have the health care we can afford and that means the choice of a public health insurance option. While health insurance CEOs took home 0 billion, health insurance premiums have been going up four times faster than wages. In addition to ongoing federal lobbying efforts, UnitedHealth Group has also been involved in work to prevent a public option from …
Posted: 1月 23rd, 2012 under Small Business Health Insurance.
Tags: Arrested, BusinessAsUsual, stopping, UnitedHealth
Comments
Comment from muskyownz
Time 2012年1月23日 at 8:09 PM
LMAO. They sound so conservative.
Comment from dsa8
Time 2012年1月23日 at 8:56 PM
/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU
Probably one of the most important videos of our time.
Must watch
Comment from UpTakeVideo
Time 2012年1月23日 at 9:00 PM
Obviously you missed the entire Republican National Convention.
Comment from jagexownage
Time 2012年1月23日 at 9:01 PM
Why the hell they getting arested for? freedom of speech?I didn’t see that when george bush was arround.
Comment from DrDuke509
Time 2012年1月23日 at 9:44 PM
Thanks for the positive comments I was the one man arrested in this video (hronisv) So anyway: kmg501 take your exploitive, greed based, capitalist system and shove it. dentester: enjoy your McDonalds. You will need some good healthcare after your quadruple bypass.
Comment from hronisv
Time 2012年1月23日 at 9:48 PM
who is these womens? can i aske something her?
Comment from kmg501
Time 2012年1月23日 at 10:45 PM
What the hell is this crap? Take your socialism and shove it. Channel unsubscribed.
Comment from SomeCynicalGuy
Time 2012年1月23日 at 11:04 PM
I wouldn’t say that about all of them, either. I’m just saying from what I’ve seen, this is more often the case.
Comment from dentester
Time 2012年1月23日 at 11:14 PM
I’m going to stand outside McDonalds and demand a free hamburger.
“We shall overcome!”
Comment from Fringe111
Time 2012年1月23日 at 11:38 PM
Good for them, that’s how to do it.
Comment from Plutonwolf
Time 2012年1月23日 at 11:40 PM
Time to also do this to the Banks. Read Matt Taibi’s story in the latest Rolling Stone. But I warn you, only do so during the day, make sure you have some Ambien and it wouldn’t hurt to have a friend close by to hold your hand. Steven King never wrote scarier stuff.
Comment from librophile
Time 2012年1月24日 at 12:00 AM
GOOD for the PEOPLE
versus
GREED for the PROFIT
Comment from Teenagefreedomfightr
Time 2012年1月24日 at 12:10 AM
I certainly wouldn’t say that about all of them. This very channel and TMP showed many cases of completely legal, registered and peaceful protest being corralled and beaten down. I don’t defend such actions on any scale.
Comment from RUKiddinMeHuh
Time 2012年1月24日 at 12:25 AM
good for them. They are 100% correct.
Comment from ihatelifejosemartine
Time 2012年1月24日 at 12:38 AM
Good to see those who truly care about health care in this country stand up for what they believe in.
Comment from Smartassawhip
Time 2012年1月24日 at 1:27 AM
This may be what it has to come to folks. We must stand up to those who are standing in our way of real health care reform. Visit the comment section of my profile for ways in which you can get involved. Thanks.
Comment from SomeCynicalGuy
Time 2012年1月24日 at 1:30 AM
You’ve also got to take into account the differences in scale of these protests, though. The RNC was expected to host numbers of protesters 50,000 strong, by some estimates (though the end result wasn’t nearly as large), with a much more animated crowd. This was far more subdued, with fewer people involved, and everybody else standing a good distance away.
Comment from Teenagefreedomfightr
Time 2012年1月24日 at 1:49 AM
At least unlike usual the police were actually polite about it. They were technically breaking the law. At least this time they weren’t beaten to a pulp like the usually RNC and DNC protests.
Comment from MichaelDeMello
Time 2012年1月23日 at 7:45 PM
@jagexownage were you blind then?