Protests Planned At Hartford Health Insurance Providers

CT Citizen Action Group

HARTFORD, CT – Protestors are expected Wednesday outside two Hartford insurance companies to protest policies regarding coverage.

The protest will take place Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 10 a.m.

That's when the CT Citizen Action Group (CCAG) and partners will march on Aetna and UnitedHealth in Hartford, "demanding they stop denying care and put people over profit," wrote the CCAG in a statement Tuesday.

Dozens of activists will gather with signs outside of Aetna at 151 Farmington Ave. to hear speakers.

The group will march, chanting and singing, to UnitedHealth at CityPlace I, 185 Asylum St., where they will hear speakers.

“I lost my health insurance at age 26 and was digging through my garbage for vials of insulin,” said Kristen Whitney Daniels, of Shelton, who will speak Wednesday.

“It is hard enough to have a chronic medical condition without having the insurance company inserted into every discussion and decision. I have recently spent at least 30 hours on the phone trying to get medication. This has got to stop.”

The rally will be one of 14 events happening nationally led by Care Over Cost.

Aetna and UnitedHealth are part of the private health insurance industry, whose business model relies on denying members the treatments and medicines they deserve.

The CCAG's demand letter to Aetna is here and its demand letter for UnitedHealth is here.

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