Welpoint Orders Nine Arrested
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Simone Morse, a 19-year old student at Hunter College, was the first to be handcuffed and pulled up from the floor this morning at 1 Liberty Plaza in lower Manhattan, the corporate offices of WellPoint, one of the largest health insurers in the United States.
Cameron Gibson, a 23-year-old medical student at SUNY Downstate, was one of the next to go, followed by Frank Broadhead, a 67-year-old senior on Medicare, who was carried out on his back and deposited into a nearby police van by two members of the New York Police Department. In total, nine protesters were arrested on Wednesday morning on charges of disorderly conduct and/or trespassing, according to an NYPD officer on site who spoke off the record.
"These people are complicit," says Kenneth Weinberg, a gentleman in a white medical jacket standing in the picket line out front, pointing towards the WellPoint offices. Weinberg, an emergency room physician at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey, says he would have participated in the sit-in today except for the fact that he's scheduled to work in the E.R. tomorrow. "As an emergency room doctor I see every day how out of control it is. Forty-five thousand Americans die yearly for lack of proper health care. Enough."
Cameron Gibson, a 23-year-old medical student at SUNY Downstate, was one of the next to go, followed by Frank Broadhead, a 67-year-old senior on Medicare, who was carried out on his back and deposited into a nearby police van by two members of the New York Police Department. In total, nine protesters were arrested on Wednesday morning on charges of disorderly conduct and/or trespassing, according to an NYPD officer on site who spoke off the record.
"These people are complicit," says Kenneth Weinberg, a gentleman in a white medical jacket standing in the picket line out front, pointing towards the WellPoint offices. Weinberg, an emergency room physician at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey, says he would have participated in the sit-in today except for the fact that he's scheduled to work in the E.R. tomorrow. "As an emergency room doctor I see every day how out of control it is. Forty-five thousand Americans die yearly for lack of proper health care. Enough."
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