
Health care protest on ice gets personal with UnitedHealth CEO
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“We can not allow people like Hemsley to profit off denying people health care without feeling a public backlash for their actions. If we want health care reform we need to stand for real reform and we need to stand against United HealthCare.” — Protester
For some, it is simply wrong to profit off the illnesses of others. Feeling ignored by senators and representatives that appear to listen only to lobbyists, a group of Minnesotans took their displeasure directly to the CEO of one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies on Saturday. We don’t need insurance profiteers between us and our health care,” said activist and co-organizer Roger Cuthbertson, after planting a banner in the snow in front of the $6.6 million Lake Minnetonka mansion owned by UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley. Elizabeth Frost, MD, and co-chair of the Minnesota Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), joined the protest. Continue Reading