The five biggest health insurers made over $12 billion in profits last year, which is $8 billion more than the year before. They have achieved these obscene profits by raising their rates in many states by double digits and dropping over 2.7 million customers from their health insurance plans. What's more is that AHIP has spent hundreds of millions of dollars into ads that deliberately distort the truth and outright lie to health care consumers in an effort to block reform. If they win, we lose.
CCAG and HCAN are organizing a free bus that will leave from Wethersfield (with stops in West Haven, Trumbull & Stamford) on the evening of Monday March 8 to take Connecticut activists down to the protest march and lobby day in Washington.
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