MoveOn's new celebrity-studded video snarkily argues for the public option by highlighting the plight of those poor health care executives with their millions of dollars in walking around money. (Isn’t it time they had a chance?) Check it out.
My favorite line goes to Will Ferrell:
“Insurance companies are detail oriented enough to deny claims for things like typos. If you spell something wrong, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so.”
Farrell’s line is funny, but it’d be a lot funnier if it wasn’t true. I just reported a story for the Seattle-based political blog Publicola on health insurance company abuses that included this horror story.
Tomorrow is the big anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. which you’ve hopefully by now seen signs for on your college campus. The protest, organized by Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), begins with a rally near the White House, continues with a march to the U.S. Capitol, and concludes with a “die-in” that organizers estimate will involve approximately 1,000 people lying down near the Capitol in a symbolic effort to represent dead U.S. soldiers and dead Iraqis.
To get you pumped for the action, I thought I’d belatedly share some photos from the last anti-war event I attended, a “Take A Stand Town Hall” co-sponsored by Americans Against Escalation in Iraq and MoveOn.org. The event was targeted at Senator Specter who “chose to stand with President Bush and his reckless Iraq war policy instead of his constituents” by failing to attend. (The organizers left an empty chair on the panel to remind the audience of Specter’s absence.)
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