event details posted by: bill z begins: Jun 19, 12:00 pm ends: Jun 10, 8:00 pm location: 16th and Chestnut, CIGNA HQ

NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES
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>  San Francisco Oklahoma City Hartford New York San Antonio Minnesota
>  Louisville Gainsville Chicago Indianapolis Newark Philadelphia Lancaster
>  Wilkes-Barre Pittsburgh
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>  HEALTHCARE YES! HEALTH INSURANCE NO!
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>  GUARANTEED, UNIVERSAL, SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE NOW!
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>  Join nurses, doctors, patients and Americans of every stripe protesting in
>  memory of the countless victims of the insurance industry. Protests are
>  being held around the country on a day when 38,000 health insurance
>  lobbyists are having their annual convention in San Francisco. Join the
>  protest against Cigna, one of the merciless health insurance giants that
>  deny care every day, including the recently publicized denial of a
>  life-saving liver transplant for 17-year old Natalie Sarkisyan.
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>  OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS _NOT WORKING_
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>  Over 47 million are uninsured; millions more inadequately covered. Yet,
>  the U.S. health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic
>  product than any other country but ranks 37 out of 191 countries in its
>  performance, according to the World Health Organization.
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>  IT\'S TIME FOR GUARANTEED, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
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>  Universal, single-payer healthcare would replace profit-driven insurance
>  companies with a single public agency (like Medicare) that would distribute
>  healthcare dollars to _private_ healthcare providers. It cuts out the
>  middlemen: private insurance companies that waste huge amounts of our
>  healthcare dollars on things that have nothing to do with care: overhead,
>  underwriting, billing, sales and marketing departments as well as huge
>  profits and exorbitant executive pay. It is due time to take insurers'
>  hands off our healthcare and create a humane system with guaranteed
>  coverage for all.
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>  _Sponsored by_: Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied
>  Professionals (PASNAP/NNOC), Healthcare-NOW!, Healthcare for All
>  Philadelphia, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP),
>  Pennsylvanians United for Single-payer Healthcare,
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>  American Medical Students Association, Pennsylvania Council of Churches,
>  South Jersey Healthcare for All Coalition.
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