What is a Life Worth?
NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST
AGAINST HEALTH INSURANCE CORPORATIONS:
JUNE 19TH - PLEASE JOIN US!
Join patients, nurses, doctors, and Americans of every stripe protesting in memory of the countless victims of the insurance industry. Bring family, friends, and photos of loved ones harmed by insurance denials.
GET INVOLVED:
- Download and share a PDF flyer with details here [2]
- Join the conversation at our newly launched blog [3]
JOIN A PROTEST IN A CITY NEAR YOU:
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- Albany
NY Health Plan Assn., 90 State St.
Time: 5:00 pm
Contact: mikekeenan@pefencon.info [7]
- Atlanta
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
3350 Peachtree Road NE
Time: 3:00 - 5:30 pm
Contact: msrece@yahoo.com [8]
- Baltimore
Care First Blue Cross, 100 S. Charles St.
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Contact: info@mdsinglepayer.org [9]
- Boston
MA Association of Health Care Plans
Building 30 Court St., opposite City Hall
Time: 12 Noon
Contact: jlynnxo@aol.com [10]
- Chicago
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
525 W Monroe St.
Time: 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Contact: Chisinglepayer@gmail.com [11]
- Louisville
Humana, 5th and Main St.
Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Contact: Nursenpo@aol.com [12]
- New York
GHI office (34th and 9th) and march
to United Healthcare (33rd and 8th)
Time: 5:00 pm
Contact: noprivatization@yahoo.com [13]
- Newark
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Washington Park
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Contact: rayiuc@aol.com [14]
- Philadelphia
Cigna, 16th and Chestnut St.
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: kcasey@pennanurses.org [15]
- Pittsburgh
Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield
120 Fifth Avenue
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Contact: sm2fox@yahoo.com [16]
- San Antonio
Humana Insurance Company
8431 Fredericksburg Rd
Time: 6:00 pm
Contact: janelee@satx.rr.com [17]
- San Francisco
Moscone West Convention Center
Howard @ 4th St. (Powell St. BART)
Time: 12:00 pm
Contact: bgallagher@calnurses.org [18]
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Health Insurance Casualty of the Week
What Do I Tell Isabelle? [19]
Blog By Donna Smith [20], Activist/Patient from the Michael Moore film SiCKO
CHICAGO - Many years ago as an undergraduate in college, I read a book titled Disturbing the Universe (1979) by physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson. In the book, Dyson shares one particular recollection of his difficulty as a father talking to his then-young son about the realities of nuclear weapons development and use and how Daddy's work might contribute to that body of knowledge. Dyson wrote that it was difficult explaining such things to a child over breakfast. Indeed. And as I read more and more patient horror stories that make their way to the guaranteedhealthcare.org Web page from all over the country, I have begun to think perhaps that is the test by which we should determine our future healthcare policy.
How will we explain our actions toward one another in the area of healthcare to our children over breakfast? How will Brandy Kozisek, 32, of Eugene, Ore., explain to her daughter Isabelle that not only does her mom have a brain tumor for which she cannot get care, but that the condition is genetic and the insurance company won't pay to test Isabelle either?
- Read the complete blog by Donna Smith and more here [21]
- Tell us your own health insurance horror story here [22]
THANK YOU!
The Guaranteed Healthcare Blog is a project of:
CNA/NNOC: The Nurses Union
Physicians for a National Healthcare Program
Healthcare Now
And YOU...
http://www.guaranteedhealthcare.org/blog [23]
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