250,000 Protestors To Encircle Colorado Capitol On January 31
| By Sean Shealy - Jan 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pm EST |
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Categories: Peace & Social Justice, Economic Fairness & Security, Affordable Healthcare, Education, Consumer and Worker Protection, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, Budget Priorities, Reproductive Rights
Categories: Peace & Social Justice, Economic Fairness & Security, Affordable Healthcare, Education, Consumer and Worker Protection, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, Budget Priorities, Reproductive Rights
In a siege to rival Leningrad, a quarter of a million citizens are expected to descend on Colorado's capitol on January 31 to prevent the passage of the 2008 Insurance Extortion Act.
The act, championed by United Health Care and a host of insurance conglomerates, would force the most vulnerable citizens to purchase inadequate, token health insurance, about as valuable in real-life as a Monopoly "Get Out Of Jail Free" card would be in an American court. Those who cannot afford to pay for "protection" will have their financial knees bashed in with a legal baseball bat -- they will be forced to pay a huge fine equal to a year's insurance premiums.
"We will lay siege to the capitol and force the legislators to remain in session until they defeat this extortion racket," said one anonymous source.
The groundwork for the Insurance Extortion Act was laid in 2007, when the governor's "independent" Blue Ribbon Commission On Healthcare received more than a million dollar "contribution" from an "anonymous source." Prior to that, the commission determined that Universal, Single-Payer healthcare was the only plan that covered everyone, and saved more than a billion dollars. After the "contribution," the Commission reversed course and decided to give billions more to the insurance industry. YOU do the math.
Of course, much of the above is satire (except for the facts on what this will do to Colorado's health care). What is really "expected" to happen is that we all lay down and take it like whipped puppies.
Will YOU?
Call, write, petition, organize, protest!
There's an event at the Mercury Cafe on January 22 at 6:30 featuring doctors, nurses, charts, graphs, bells, whistles, a free showing of Michael Moore's SiCKO, and live music. Let's get amped, folks; we have a couple of weeks to gather enough steam to stop this horrible legislation from becoming law.
This blogger is not affiliated with the event, but encourages everyone to attend.
The act, championed by United Health Care and a host of insurance conglomerates, would force the most vulnerable citizens to purchase inadequate, token health insurance, about as valuable in real-life as a Monopoly "Get Out Of Jail Free" card would be in an American court. Those who cannot afford to pay for "protection" will have their financial knees bashed in with a legal baseball bat -- they will be forced to pay a huge fine equal to a year's insurance premiums.
"We will lay siege to the capitol and force the legislators to remain in session until they defeat this extortion racket," said one anonymous source.
The groundwork for the Insurance Extortion Act was laid in 2007, when the governor's "independent" Blue Ribbon Commission On Healthcare received more than a million dollar "contribution" from an "anonymous source." Prior to that, the commission determined that Universal, Single-Payer healthcare was the only plan that covered everyone, and saved more than a billion dollars. After the "contribution," the Commission reversed course and decided to give billions more to the insurance industry. YOU do the math.
Of course, much of the above is satire (except for the facts on what this will do to Colorado's health care). What is really "expected" to happen is that we all lay down and take it like whipped puppies.
Will YOU?
Call, write, petition, organize, protest!
There's an event at the Mercury Cafe on January 22 at 6:30 featuring doctors, nurses, charts, graphs, bells, whistles, a free showing of Michael Moore's SiCKO, and live music. Let's get amped, folks; we have a couple of weeks to gather enough steam to stop this horrible legislation from becoming law.
This blogger is not affiliated with the event, but encourages everyone to attend.
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