“What is our goal in being here today?” Mindy Salango from West Virginia Citizen Action Group asked the hundred protesters who took over the lobby of UnitedHealth Group (UHG)’s headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota on April 16. “That’s simple! We’re here to demand action and accountability. We are here to demand your unscrupulous practice of denying care and medications to patients you serve ends now.”
Mindy, like me, is fed up. We both risked arrest at United’s headquarters alongside People’s Action members from all across the country and Minnesota doctors, nurses and people who need care.
Every one of us is sick and tired of seeing friends and family in pain because private health insurers deny care. As long as their profits rise, these massive companies don’t care when they make policyholders wait, go broke, or die. That makes us mad as hell.
