Yes, We Can send our medical
bills to Aetna, saying
"Your company
lobbied against extending
Medicare, so you pay it."Aetna,
Inc. 151 Farmington Avenue, RE2T Hartford CT, 06156
Here are more
places to send your bills.
We will boycott Chevron and Exxon, which fatten on
unsurance stocks, until they divest.
We will
ask our labor union friends to demand pension
fund divestment from unsurance companies.
We will
ask our friends abroad to divest from American
stocks until America respects our lives. Biggest investors in
health unsurance companies: Microsoft, Google,
Apple, Chevron, Exxon, Cisco Systems, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America.
We will advise family or friends not to enlist or re-enlist until America defends our lives.
By paying taxes we get a free army. We should get free medical care, too.
There's enough money for both if taxes are shared sensibly.
Our national security is no longer served by military bases in 150 nations.
We're better served by creating jobs fixing our schools and bridges, and by building 150,000 new free clinics.
We will take our friends to clinics tending the rich and we
will not
leave until tended. When challenged, we will invoke the "necessity defense."
We will
turn off TV
channels and cancel newspaper subscriptions when media tell us we
aren't worth the money. We'll seek
news that strengthens us.
We will join
the League of Uninsured Voters (LUV) and refuse
to vote for anyone who voted against our health. There are more
millions uninsured than in AARP.
We
will start local
health co-ops
that compete with
health
unsurance, even where in violation of laws made by insurers. We invoke
again the necessity defense.
We
will invade insurers' offices, and conferences, and
golf
courses.
We will advocate:
-- More medical schools and more doctors
-- More holistic curriculums
-- Permit doctors to practice in any
state
-- Permit Independent Nurse
Practitioners in all states
-- End corporate bribes to legislators
and regulators
-- Shift budgets from prisons and war to
clinics and jobs
Our actions will be nonviolent but as extreme
as our situation.
Is this class war? Yes. We didn't start it but we'll
finish it. As billionaire Warren Buffett says, "It's class
warfare, my class
is winning, but they shouldn't be."CNN Interview
Paul Glover is
author of Health
Democracy, founder of the Ithaca Health Alliance, founder of
PhilaHealthia and other programs. He has taught urban studies at Temple
University. (215) 805-8330 paulglover.org
click
to learn how to build a Health
Co-op
click to learn how to start a member-owned FREE CLINIC
Throughout the USA there are hundreds of community-initiated nonprofit medical and dental clinics which serve their visitors free or by donation; staffed by health professionals donating services or paid by the city, county and/or local foundations;
relying primarily on volunteers for non-professional services; relying
on equipment donated or purchased. They keep records on
complex databases or simple card files. There are large
clinics, with dozens of medical staff, and small ones, with one doctor
one half-day weekly.
These free clinics prove that any
community or neighborhood can do likewise and that average citizens can
take control when large systems exploit rather than protect them.
Here's introduction to the Patch Adams Free
Clinic:
