OccupyDC Mic Checked Chamber of Commerce Blue Cross & Blue Shield Event

[SincereDread]

This was a very well stated, executed, and powerful message (that first woman is also dynamyte at keep-away). It is important that an industry that makes its money avoiding its duties through denial of claims and cancellation of service be told to go fuck itself. If the public option was available, only the truly stupid or those with a vested interest would choose to stay with an insurance company.

[cymonebreathe]

love that lady.

[reader642]

Awesome. Mic checks are the only way ordinary people get allowed into the media discourse. To anyone interested, I made a short compilation of all of Occupy's highest profile mic checks. The video's called "Occupy vs. Top 1%" Check it out!

[MisterKorihor]

Why is security so gentle? It's ridiculous! Forceful physical expulsion is called for.

[CaptainRidley]

@MisterKorihor Security should of escorted the Health Insurance Company ceos. They need to go to prison

[MisterKorihor]

@CaptainRidley What criminal laws have they broken?

[CaptainRidley]

@MisterKorihor Murder. They purposefully try and find any loophole to deny coverage to people who need it most in order to make the maximum profits for the company. HMO's and the like are literally a form of hitmen.

[MisterKorihor]

@CaptainRidley First, murder is the direct premeditated killing of one person by another using some kind of murder weapon (gun, knife, etc.). When an ill person dies, it's the disease that is the proximal cause of death--not an insurance CEO. Second, in the U.S. anyone can get life-saving medical treatment even if you don't have insurance or the capacity to pay. Third, some insurance providers offer coverage for the ill--they just cost more. Fourth, people should not let their insurance lapse.

[CaptainRidley]

@MisterKorihor You understand that insurance companies have an army of people who go through your medical history looking for any thing they can claim makes you uninsurable right? That way even if you are paying for full coverage they can drop you or refuse to pay even if the procedure was already done. Their actions lead to many people dying. That is murder. The system is a broken corrupt mess and needs to be fixed. No other modern country has a private system. We need to change.

[MisterKorihor]

@CaptainRidley I'm sorry but this is too indirect to be murder. If you do not help a homeless man, and he later dies, are you a murderer? Of course not! That would be a perversion of the definition of "murder". And the same applies here.

If an insurance company denies payment, but the life-saving procedure is done anyway, then how does that lead to death? Also, can you provide references that support a large-scale rejection of payment by insurance companies for covered critically-ill patients?

[RealitySucksHard]

OH..Now she wants to get her purse..LOL

[Anonjane1]

Awesome

[vinged]

Amazing !

[jo4n11]

Brilliant!! Like a hydra...cut off one head and two more appear!!

[anisangye]

FANTASTIC!!!

[nathanabrewer]

well done. Thank You!

[lumpilulu]

I love Mic Check!!!

[abanthro]

Excellent display of how we are the majority-- hilarious to watch security trying to keep up.

[itsallgroovy1]

Pure Awesomeness!!!!! Teamwork at it's best =)

[Yankhadenough]

I love the way her purse dropped and she doesn't give a damn, YOU GO GIRL!

[OperationLeakS]

Mic Check!!!

[tehboyscout]

@OperationLeakS mic check!

[xthisangelfell79x]

Great Job Occupy DC!!!

[ModelMediaMarketing]

People are dying and the Talibaggers cheer

[epignosis567]

nice...

[MorioKun1]

This is the beauty of the mic check tactic, you silence one, another one takes their place.

[Yankhadenough]

I hate BC/BS, switching to Avmed not-for profit during open enrollment. Can't wait to see Medicare for me and for ALL!

[vplyr]

pathetic mob rule won't win the day Occupy is being shut down as we speak!

[Joseph24300]

don't grab the guy's fuckin arm. if that was a cop he probably would have laid your ass out.

[Yereviltwin2]

What a pack of rude jerks. Make your protest outside, don't disrupt someone else’s dinner.

[dabomb1357]

@Yereviltwin2 Yes, because the camera's are totally outside.

[onlylettersand0to9]

@Yereviltwin2 Yes, the people without health care should die quietly and politely so they don't disturb idiots like you. We wouldn't want to tax your stupid brain and cold, shriveled heart.

[RoninDave]

@Yereviltwin2 go back to sleep

[markdudevad]

Beautiful

[EdotAnonymous]

For Profit Health Care

~Staying Sick = Need more Medicine

~More Medicine = Spending more Money

~More Money = Higher Profits

~Higher Profits = The Bottom Line

For Profit Health Care's Bottom Line is TO KEEP YOU SICK

[rafyselles]

Organize in your community ,we will take this country back ! 

[johnsonbigbob]

time for people to have a voice have an opinion and our opinion and voice is right. fuckin medical and pharma companies don't want to find cures and actually help people. more money if people stay sick

[occupyeverywhere]

I want every speaker at every event to live in fear of the words "mic check"

[dml169]

awesome

[OddFoxxeP]

I love the look on his face when he hears "Mic Check", I do like how the people not involved in the movement didn't start screaming and bitching at them. I don't know if its because they were listening, or just because it would be bad PR for them, but either way, I'm glad they didn't start screaming like 2 year olds. ^_^

[RioMadMan]

Fuck yes, thank you Occupy DC

[JackFreeman4U]

They needed to ad in dont toch Me let us speak U fawks. Man think of the zombie Big O will make when He dose His first mic check Mic Cheek I I have have drons drons and Im and Im not afraid not afraid to Use You to use you Will big Os words be in red like Gods in the bibel? Oh how aboyt Big hiil We Came we saw We came we saw He died He died Haha ha Haha ha Wont there speaches be so nice mic checked. Thanks for posting. Thanks for posting.

[JordanTheImpaler69]

This is done perfectly. As soon as one gets taken out, another starts. PERFECT.

[DustyWiyrick]

YES THAT WAS AWESOME------ah'ya. first!