{"id":2612,"date":"2024-04-29T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T20:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2025-07-13T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T20:27:29","slug":"sick-tired-and-mad-as-hell-we-demand-an-end-to-care-denials-at-uniteds-hq-by-aija-nemer-aanerud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2024\/04\/29\/sick-tired-and-mad-as-hell-we-demand-an-end-to-care-denials-at-uniteds-hq-by-aija-nemer-aanerud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick, Tired and Mad as Hell: We Demand an End to Care Denials at United\u2019s HQ by Aija Nemer-Aanerud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jenn_phone_slider675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jenn_phone_slider675-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2381\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cWhat is our goal in being here today?\u201d Mindy Salango from West Virginia Citizen Action Group asked the hundred protesters who took over the lobby of UnitedHealth Group (UHG)\u2019s headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota on April 16. \u201cThat\u2019s simple! We\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/438039969_10232170902237789_5538286463806964063_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/438039969_10232170902237789_5538286463806964063_n-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2098\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mindy, like me, is fed up. We both risked arrest at United\u2019s headquarters alongside People\u2019s Action members from all across the country and Minnesota doctors, nurses and people who need care.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t care when they make policyholders wait, go broke, or die. That makes us mad as hell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourfuture.org\/20240429\/i-dont-want-to-die-we-demand-united-health-end-delays-and-denials\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading \u201cSick, Tired and Mad as Hell: We Demand an End to Care Denials at United\u2019s HQby Aija Nemer-Aanerud | Published Apr 29, 2024 on ourfuture.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/438725380_10232170908597948_6800099388844782369_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/438725380_10232170908597948_6800099388844782369_n-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1950\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat is our goal in being here today?\u201d Mindy Salango from West Virginia Citizen Action Group asked the hundred protesters who took over the lobby of UnitedHealth Group (UHG)\u2019s headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota on April 16. \u201cThat\u2019s simple! We\u2019re here to demand action and accountability. We are here to demand your unscrupulous practice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}