Six Arrested For Stopping UnitedHealth "Business-As-Usual"

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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[jagexownage]

Why the hell they getting arested for? freedom of speech?I didn't see that when george bush was arround.

[UpTakeVideo]

Obviously you missed the entire Republican National Convention.

[RUKiddinMeHuh]

good for them. They are 100% correct.

[Smartassawhip]

This may be what it has to come to folks. We must stand up to those who are standing in our way of real health care reform. Visit the comment section of my profile for ways in which you can get involved. Thanks.

[MichaelDeMello]

@jagexownage were you blind then?



[muskyownz]

LMAO. They sound so conservative. 

[dsa8]

/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU

Probably one of the most important videos of our time.

Must watch

[DrDuke509]

Thanks for the positive comments I was the one man arrested in this video (hronisv) So anyway: kmg501 take your exploitive, greed based, capitalist system and shove it. dentester: enjoy your McDonalds. You will need some good healthcare after your quadruple bypass.

[hronisv]

who is these womens? can i aske something her?

[kmg501]

What the hell is this crap? Take your socialism and shove it. Channel unsubscribed.

[SomeCynicalGuy]

I wouldn't say that about all of them, either. I'm just saying from what I've seen, this is more often the case.

[dentester]

I'm going to stand outside McDonalds and demand a free hamburger.

"We shall overcome!"