AHIP MIA: Standing Up to the Health Insurance Lobby

October 23, 2009

Yesterday afternoon, AFSCME joined more than 500 union members and health care activists at a rally in Washington, DC, where giant health insurance lobby group America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) was holding a conference just around the corner from our DC headquarters. Led by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), we demanded the insurance industry's top lobbyist, Karen Ignagni, meet with seven families whose lives have been turned upside down by insurance company bad practices and who traveled thousands of miles to be in DC. Ignagni never showed. Listen to their stories:

Read more at the HCAN blog and the AFL-CIO blog, and check out some great photos from AMERICAblog: