Crowd protests Anthem profits
09/26/08
From Cincinatti.com:
MASON - Shouting "Health-care now!" about 200 protesters Thursday afternoon rushed into the lobby of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield at its Ohio headquarters in Mason.
They were there, said Stephanie Beck Borden, to protest the high cost of health care, coupled with Anthem's big profits.
"Issues of affordable health care affect all of us, and the current system is a broken one," said Borden, a Madisonville resident and member of the Amos Project in Cincinnati. "When Anthem refused my father's claim for rehabilitation for devastating injuries he suffered in a car accident, he was condemned to a life of misery and dependence. I can't help but feel that this system puts insurance company profits over the well-being of regular people."
Borden's father, Ronald Beck, was injured in October 2005. Her mother died in the accident.
