Glendale 7 Arrested at CIGNA: What’s a Life Worth?

They're at it again. Those pesky health care people who think everyone deserves to live a healthy life, or just plain live, for that matter. 122 people die every day for lack of health care and more for denial of care despite paying high premiums. That's the way it is in America. But some people just can't let it go. What is this, some kind of first world democracy where everyone has equal rights to life?

Seven were arrested today at CIGNA headquarters in Glendale CA, including Dr. Matt Hendrickson, MD MPH, as they sat-in on the CIGNA lobby. Police and CIGNA security barricaded the entrance to the lobby and only allowed "registered" press inside, of which there were very few.

Sit-in supporters chanting "Arrest the Real Criminals" and pointing at the CIGNA building, had to watch from afar through the glass doors as police carried protesters away through the building to a loading dock garage. Protesters then walked around to the loading dock where a Glendale Police motorcycle squad promptly followed them and kept them at a s distance from the garage entrance. Then they closed the garage door enough so that the arrests and their loading into the police van could not be witnessed by protesters, the public, or cameras.

I talked to Shelia Dvorak who was there in support of the sit-in protesters and who was arrested on 10/15/09 for a sit-in at Blue Cross in L.A.'s beautiful downtown financial district. She said she's not afraid of being arrested and was not treated badly, and that in fact the police she talked to sympathized with her. She made a video of that sit-in here: http://mobilizeforhealthcare-la.ning.com/video/blue-cross-sit-in-for-medicare The police arrested the sit-in protesters only in response to CIGNA on charges of trespassing.

Another man who was inside with the sit-in protesters came out when police threatened to arrest everyone. He was carrying a sign that read "What's a life worth?", with a picture of his daughter on it. He had full CIGNA coverage for his family when his daughter was denied treatment for a liver problem and died.

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