Nine Arrested At WellPoint Insurance Sit-In | MichaelMoore.com

Nine Arrested At WellPoint Insurance Sit-In | MichaelMoore.com.

Simone Morse, a 19-year old student at Hunter College, was the first to be handcuffed and pulled up from the floor this morning at 1 Liberty Plaza in lower Manhattan, the corporate offices of WellPoint, one of the largest health insurers in the United States.

Cameron Gibson, a 23-year-old medical student at SUNY Downstate, was one of the next to go, followed by Frank Broadhead, a 67-year-old senior on Medicare, who was carried out on his back and deposited into a nearby police van by two members of the New York Police Department. In total, nine protesters were arrested on Wednesday morning on charges of disorderly conduct and/or trespassing, according to an NYPD officer on site who spoke off the record.

–EDITORIAL COMMENTS–

This certainly was not a good move on the behalf WellPoint.  In an industry that is already wrought with an image of being money-hungry, godless, and utterly unethical, WellPoint has just made the case.  Ostensibly, by calling the police and ordering the removal of peaceful protestors, WellPoint has done itself some media and image harm.  How can a company with the soft-sounding, concerned name like WellPoint obviously do the reverse of what its name suggests?  When all is said and done, WellPoint has the appearance of being The Gestapo.  We have hopefully seen the end of abuse by the health insurancy industry, but the executives refuse to go down without a fight: but their fight is only strengthening our resolve and cause.

Posted by maschwar on October 29, 2009. Filed under Money,Opinion Editorial,Politics,WorldNewsVine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.