Health Care Activists Protest in Downtown DC

[SecularMotion]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dozens of health care activists are protesting in the nation's capital against what they call an abusive health insurance industry.

Members of Health Care for America Now gathered at Dupont Circle Tuesday morning, and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and other speakers addressed the crowd. They planned to march through downtown Washington to a hotel where America's Health Insurance Plans, an association of health insurance companies, is meeting for a conference.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/09/us/AP-US-Health-Care-Protest.html?_r=1

[grasswire]

1. dozens? dozens?

We need to do better than dozens.

[SoapBox]

2. Ditto to that post!

Especially when we are competing against this crapola:

"Infiltrating the Tea Baggers' Big Event"

http://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/03/special-to-tpc-infiltrating-tea-baggers.html

[nyc 4 Biden]

4. The dem base is disillusioned.

We have to snap out of it and get back the mojo we had in the lead up to the 2008 POTUS election.

Lets pick a fight we can't win!

i.e. single payer, card check, troop withdrawal, election reform, cap and trade, repeal nafta, finance reform, etc

who's knows what can happen.

[Tippy]

5. I agree with you ...

[democrat_patriot]

6. Any photos? Dozend for the MSM could mean millions

I meant they turnde 1000 teabaggers into a BILLION.

[karynnj]

7. This was poorly publisized - did you see anything here on DU?

I didn't. Someone from one of the organizations behind it should have posted about it a few days before.

[The Hitman]

8. Bullshit

I work on one of the streets where the protest happened. It was definitely HUNDREDS, not dozens. Mostly students and retirees. MoveOn.org and the SEIU sent out e-mails.

But there should have been more, thats for sure. 10:30 on a Tuesday? Some of us have jobs to pay for our healthcare and cant just drop everything to march.

[fatbuckel]

3. health care protest

that`s all the coverage????