maven&meddler

It’s about people. Hard working people. And, it’s about insurance companies that don’t give a good god damn.

The battle will take place tomorrow at the Washington D.C. Ritz Carlton on 22nd Street.

Check here for details on how to be a part of it all.

Stacie is the mother of twin daughters, now 11, who were diagnosed with leukemia when they were 4. Both girls needed stem cell transplants and other cancer treatments. The twins survived, but the glands controlling their growth were damaged. Doctors recommended that they receive daily growth-hormone injections. But Stacie’s husband’s company had switched to CIGNA for health insurance, and CIGNA refused to cover the hormone shots. With $30,000 in medical debt, a mortgage, her husband’s brief unemployment and food costs, the family of six filed for bankruptcy in 2003. The twins now get their growth hormone drug free from Eli Lilly. But the family still pays about $4,012 a year in premiums to CIGNA, plus $650 co-pay for an annual cancer survivorship visit.

Tomorrow, Staci and a lot of other folks will descend on the insurance companies, who are having a conference in DC and plotting how to kill health reform at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on 22nd Street. They’re going to shut down their conference and stop them and business as usual, and do whatever it takes to succeed… including make citizens arrests.

Stay tuned!