Healthcare Justice: Showing Up to Demand An End to Denials - Last Week at UnitedHealth Group HQ!
Please check out the amazing and powerful action our national Care Over Cost campaign put on at United Health Group’s Minneapolis area Headquarters. The late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, a long time progressive leader and single payer healthcare champion, would have been proud!
People across this country are fed up with the profiteering, the greed, and the corruption in the private health insurance industry. United Health Group is one of the worst when it comes to denying our care. We need you in this fight! Tell us your story/experience with denials and delays, support our work by becoming a member. Your involvement means we will build a more powerful grassroots movement. Thanks for joining or volunteering.
Take a few minutes now to watch a short clip of last Tuesday’s inspiring action available here.
Do it for the people you’ll see in the video, Progressive Maryland’s own Mike Walsh and people like Jenn, Cate, and Robel who have insurance horror stories and for all the healthcare providers and workers who braved bad weather to turn out and tell United that they don’t get to decide who lives and who dies!
Our ongoing organizing against the industry, our pressure campaigns and the protest forced them to talk with us on site last week and to agree to a meeting with advocates, policy holders, and community leaders. Onward!
Environmental Justice Task Force - Goes Back to the Drawing Board
Anger still remains in the bellies of members of the EJTF, after legislators, for the 6th year, failed to schedule the Reclaim Renewable Energy for a vote--this killed the bill. A significant amount of paltering by legislative opponents of the bill]caused significant damage, also.
In response to this loss, over the next two weeks, the EJTF is planning tabling events in high-traffic areas Cherry Hill and Brooklyn to activate more frontline community members to the EJTF, which will be connected to a future direct action in South Baltimore.
We are still awaiting confirmation from Mayor Brandon Scott’s office on the day/time for our virtual meeting with him, which involves a discussion about the Baltimore trash incinerator. In addition, the EJTF is also planning a listening session with the Maryland Department of the Environment— stay tuned for details.
Lastly, I would like to give a heartfelt shout out out to one of Progressive Maryland’s most dedicated activist, Kurt Stand, as he retired last Friday. It was an honor to have collaborated with you last year at Young People for Progress’s “ Community Control of Safety and the Environment” community meeting in Silver Spring on December 15th.
Kurt the memories we made will forever be etched in my heart, and you have now become my lifelong mentor. I have much love and am forever grateful for the wisdom you have given me thus far!!
SirJames and the EJTF need your support with the upcoming planned tabling events, so if you would like to help, reach out here.
