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Commercial airing here in Minnesota about the insane salary United Health Group's CEO, Steven Hemsley receives....$57,000.00 per HOUR!
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Commercial airing here in Minnesota about the insane salary United Health Group's CEO, Steven Hemsley receives....$57,000.00 per HOUR!
How much did YOUR premiums go up this year?
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SEIU26 favorited a video
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Press release from: Health Care For America Now.
Minnesota HCAN Coalition Says Health Insurance System Set Up To Generate Profits While Failing To P...
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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 $690 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 becoming law. In an August email, the insurers advocacy group UnitedHealths United for Health Reform, urged employees to attend town hall meetings and contact congressional members to elevate anti-reform messaging. And UnitedHealth Group, through its subsidiary Ingenix, is the sole owner and funder of the Lewin Group, which produces polling and research content widely cited by the GOP to stop health care reform.
Diane Brennan, small business owner and grandmother, and one of those arrested, said she was involved in ...
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Reverend Grant Stevenson normally delivers his sermon at St. Mathew's Lutheran Church in St. Paul. This morning, he preached to more than 100 peop...
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Reverend Grant Stevenson normally delivers his sermon at St. Mathew's Lutheran Church in St. Paul. This morning, he preached to more than 100 people in front of UnitedHealth, the nation's largest private health insurer. His topic had roots deep in the bible and social justice.
"If they (UnitedHealth) win, the people who you care about, the people standing here, the people who you want to have health care will lose.
"We need to send a message that it is not OK to profit on other people's misery. It is not OK to profit on other people's despair. It is not OK to profit when other people are living in fear and anxiety and not knowing they're actually going to get the basic care that they're going to need."
Protesters carried small green signs with names of people who had died or were suffering because they could not afford or were refused health care insurance.
Six people sat down in the doorway of UnitedHealth and refused to move. Police warned the six and then arrested them. They were taken away peacefully.
Here are the six who were arrested:
-Anna Brelje (Political Director, Mpls Regional Labor Federation)
- Pamela Twiss (Program and Organizing Director, TakeAction Minnesota)
- Julie Schnell (President, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota)
- Sean Anderson (Organizer with SEIU Local 26)
- Diane Brennan (Small Business Owner, Grandmother and ISAIAH Leader)
- Mary Rosenthal (SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and former UnitedHealth Group employee)
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On Saturday, December 5th, SEIU Local 26 janitors kicked off their campaign to make green cleaning a reality in the Twin Cities by reducing waste, ...
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On Saturday, December 5th, SEIU Local 26 janitors kicked off their campaign to make green cleaning a reality in the Twin Cities by reducing waste, saving energy, and reducing the use of toxic chemicals. This is our effort to create Good Jobs and a Green Future!
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SEIU26 uploaded a new video
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SEIU Local 26 janitors' 2006-2007 contract campaign
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