Sit-ins planned for NYC insurance criminals offices Tuesday!
Monday, September 28, 2009 (14:25:34)

Posted by tribalscribal

We all know the American health care system is broken and that our nation deserves
much better. Despite a national debate on health care - real reform is in jeopardy.


The insurance companies are spending millions to confuse and scare the public to
keep us from ending their grip on our health and our money. With tea bagger town
hall protestors and the right-wing noise machine on one side and elected officials
from both parties putting insurance industry profits ahead of the necessity of the
people, the defenders of the status quo are winning. We can't let that happen. It's
time to take the fight to the real villain in the health care debate. It's time for
a campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience to turn the tide.

On September 29th in New York City, the Mobilization for Health Care for All is
launching a campaign of "Patients Not Profit" sit-ins at insurance company offices
to demand an end to a system that profits by denying people care and puts insurance
company bureaucrats between doctors and patients. We want the real "public option":
improved Medicare for All, a national single payer plan that cuts out the profit and
puts patients first.

The private health insurance companies are the real death panels in America. They
make billions in profit and millions for their CEOs while millions of Americans have
no health insurance and over 45,000 die every year because they can't get the care
they need. That's more than 120 people dying every day.

So beginning on September 29th in New York City, and continuing in Chicago on
October 8th and in cities across the country on October 15th, over 100 people will
put our bodies on the line to challenge the real death panels. We will enter the
offices of the major insurance companies and demand that they cover the care they
are denying to their members. We won't leave until they do - or we're arrested.
Visit www.MobilizeforHealthCare.org and sign up.

Just like the lunch counter sit-ins in the civil rights movement did for
segregation, our sit-ins can make it impossible for the United States to ignore how
outrageous the status quo of private insurance is. We want to save the lives of some
of the people who are being denied critical care today but we know we can save
countless lives in the years to come by putting a spotlight on just why our system
is broken and how urgently we need fundamental change -- a national health program
funded by a single payer.

It only takes a small group of people to do a sit-in in your community, but our
actions can inspire every American who has been abused by the insurance companies
and believes it's time for real reform to stand up and fight for it. If you are a
patient who has been denied care, sign up and let us know. If a friend, neighbor or
relative has been denied care urge them to contact us. This campaign of nonviolent
civil disobedience will continue until the insurance companies no longer stand
between the American people and the health care that is our right.

Already, patients in need of care, nurses, doctors, and people just like you are
signing up to be one of the 100 ordinary but courageous people who will launch this
battle to end private health insurance abuse and win health care for all. Join us!
We can't wait any longer - every day more people die because of the insurance
company death panels. Now is the time to do whatever it takes to win this fight once
and for all.

Sign up to sit in and join the battle today at www.mobilizeforhealthcare.org.

Peace,

Katherine Robbins
Healthcare-NOW!

Kevin Zeese
Prosperity Agenda

Kai Newkirk
Center for the Working Poor


The Mobilization for Health Care for All is a nonviolent campaign initiated by
Healthcare-NOW!, Prosperity Agenda, and the Center for the Working Poor.


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