National Day of Action Against the Health Insurance Industry - Demand Universal...TOMORROW!

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Healthcare Activists Plan June 19th as National Day of Action Against Health Insurance Companies
Thousands to Gather in San Francisco and Around Country as 38,000 Insurance Industry Executives Meet for Annual AHIP Convention

Nurses, Doctors, Patients, Consumer Activists Call for Guaranteed, Single-Payer Healthcare—“Patients Not Profits”

Seeking an end to the healthcare crisis that is destroying American lives and families, thousands of healthcare activists will descend on San Francisco and on cities around the country this June 19th as part of an unprecedented national day of protests against health insurance corporations—and in support of guaranteed, single-payer healthcare, the “Medicare for All” system succeeding in nearly every other industrialized democracy. The protests will demand a healthcare system focused on patients, not profits, and are being coordinated by the Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Healthcare, a coalition group representing hundreds of thousands of members. Learn more at www.GuaranteedHealthcare.org .

The national day of action is timed in conjunction with the annual convention of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the insurance industry lobbying group dedicated to blocking healthcare reform. Cities that headquarter major health insurance companies will host local actions as part of the national day of protest. Activists are planning events in Chicago, the base of Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Philadelphia, base of CIGNA; Hartford, base of AETNA; Louisville, KY, base of Humana; Minnetonka, MN, base of United Health Group, and elsewhere. More information can be found on regional protests at www.Healthcare-Now.org .

WHAT: Thousands Protest Insurance Companies
in San Francisco, nationwide (Boston, Chicago, Atlanta etc)
WHEN: Thursday, June 19th, 12 Noon
WHERE: San Francisco, CA—4th St. @ Howard St.

The other demonstrations are planned for:

http://www.healthcare-now.org/june19.html

Louisville, KY

Location: Humana, 5th and Main St.

Time: 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Contact: Kay Tillow ([e-mail]) or [phone]

More Info: www.kyhealthcare.org

Flyer: Download flyer



Pittsburgh, PA

Location: Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield, 120 Fifth Avenue at Liberty, downtown Pittsburgh

Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

Contact: Sandy Fox ([e-mail])

More Info: www.WPaSinglePayer.org

Flyer: Download flyer



Philadelphia, PA

Location: Cigna, 16th and Chestnut St.

Time: 12 pm to 1:00 pm


Contact: Kathleen Casey ([e-mail])

More Info: Download flyer



Harrisburg, PA

Location: State Capitol Steps, 3rd & State Streets

Time: 12 pm to 1:00 pm

Contact: Rev. Sandra Strauss, Pennsylvania Council of Churches, [phone], [e-mail]

More Info: www.HealthCare4AllPA.org

Flyer: Download flyer



New York City, NY

Location: GHI office (34th and 9th) and march to United Healthcare (33rd and 8th)

Time: 5 pm

Contact: Billy Wharton ([e-mail])

Flyer: Download flyer



Minnetonka, MN

Location: Stockholder’s Meeting of United Health Care

Contact: Joel Albers ([e-mail])



Oklahoma City, OK

Location: Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Contact: Reggie Cervantes ([e-mail])



Jacksonville, FL

Location: Blue Cross/Blue Shied, 532 Riverside Ave.

Time: 4:30 pm to 6 pm

Contact: Mark Piotrowski ([e-mail])

Flyer: Download flyer



Chicago, IL

Location: Cigna, 525 W Monroe St.

Time: 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Contact: [e-mail]

More Info: www.chispan.org

Flyer: Download flyer



Indianapolis, IN

Location: Wellpoint

Contact: Cindy Calley ([e-mail])



San Antonio, TX

Location: Humana Insurance Company

Time: 6 pm

Contact: Jane Lee Cantu ([e-mail])



Newark, NJ

Location: Washington Park at the corner of Broad Street and Washington Street

Time: 12 pm to 1:30 pm

Contact: Ray Stever ([e-mail]), Frank DeMaria 723-248-6850, Carol Gay 732-814-4912



Atlanta, GA

Location: Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Time: 3 pm to 5:30 pm

Contact: Margie Rece ([e-mail])

Flyer: Download flyer



St. Louis, MO

Location: Milles Fountain located between Market Street and Chestnut Street across from Union Station

Time: 11:45 am

Contact: Julia Lamborne ([e-mail])



Albany, NY

Location: 90 State Street (in front of NY Health Plan Association Office)

Time: 5 pm

Contact: Mike Keenan ([e-mail])

More Info: www.singlepayernow.net

Flyer: Download flyer



Boston, MA

Location: MA Association of Health Care Plans Building - (The building is located in Government Center, across from a T Stop at Boston City Hall)

Time: 12 pm

Contact: Janet Hand ([e-mail])

Flyer: Download flyer



Baltimore, MD

Location: 100 S. Charles St., Care First Blue Cross

Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Contact: Rod Ryon ([e-mail])

The Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Healthcare is composed of California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare Now!, and Progressive Democrats of America, working in coalition with the California School Employees Association, the American Medical Students Association, the California Universal Healthcare Organizing Project, the Courage Campaign, United Educators San Francisco, AFT 2121-4, and Senior Action Network.

Malinda Markowitz, RN, a member of the Council of Presidents of CNA/NNOC said, “We are calling a national protest against these insurance companies because they profit by denying care to our patients—not by providing it. The American people are ready for guaranteed healthcare, through great bills like Rep. John Conyer’s HR 676, and we will no longer let insurers and politicians block progress and maintain an unworkable status quo.”

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2. Thank you Malinda Markowitz, RN.

“We are calling a national protest against these insurance companies because they profit by denying care to our patients—not by providing it. The American people are ready for guaranteed healthcare, through great bills like Rep. John Conyer’s HR 676, and we will no longer let insurers and politicians block progress and maintain an unworkable status quo.”