There’s going to be a big “Let’s Get It Done” rally for health care reform at 10am tomorrow at Terry Schrunk Plaza (outside city hall between 3rd and 4th). You should come.
Guests include health insurance whistle-blower Wendell Potter, who quit his job as head of communications at CIGNA, last year. There’s also small business owner Jim Houser from Hawthorne Autos, who we wrote about earlier this year—he pays $80,000 a year to provide insurance to his 15 employees. Not to mention union leaders and other elected officials.
Potter has been interviewed by Rachel Maddow, Bill Moyers and Sanjay Gupta over recent weeks, not to mention the fabulous Carl Wolfson at KPOJ. If you watch anything, watch this 30 minute interview with Potter on PBS. He talks about riding in a corporate jet with gold-plated silverware, thinking about the 47million people in this country who are uninsured.
“I thought I can’t do this,” he says, quoting Dante from the introduction to Kennedy’s Profiles In Courage. “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of crisis, maintain neutrality.”
See you at the rally.