This morning, 300 Baltimore residents will head to Washington to join other health care reform supporters in a protest against insurance companies.
The group, supported by the public employee and health care worker union AFSCME and the pro-health reform group Health Care for America Now, says they will make a "mass citizens' arrest of the health insurance executives who are denying care, hiking up premiums and contributing to the deaths of 45,000 people each year."
The group aims to get Congress' attention during the same time America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the health insurance lobbying group, is meeting in DC. That group, for the record, also says it supports health care reform.
According to a press release on the protest, Baltimore residents Dorothy Bryant and others will head to the hotel where the AHIP meeting is planned with arrest warrants, badges, crime tape and "wanted" posters.
"It's time to put the enemies on notice. We will not allow the big corporations and their lobbyists to bully Congress to a standstill. This means confronting the health insurance industry that has secretly spent tens of millions to protect its profits by trying to kill reform," said Dorothy Bryant, a member of AFSCME Council 67, in a statement. "I've decided that if Congress can't hear me from Baltimore, then I'm going to DC and making my voice heard."
So, are you getting on the bus? What do you think of this action? Would you go to Washington to support or oppose health care reform?