Mock Funerals Include Hearses and Caskets
One of the most interesting ways to support the president’s health care reform took place in Rockville, Maryland this month. A group of supporters held a mock funeral to send a message to insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies that they are plain “sick of it.”
Many drivers honked their horns at the group of protestors as they drove by the areas where the demonstrations were happening. The protestors used props like funeral cars and signs that decried the profits of insurance companies and touted the praises of a public insurance option. One protest occurred just blocks away from the offices of United Health Care.
The mock funeral procession of hearses made its way to the UHC offices where demonstrators removed a coffin from the back of one hearse. They then “gathered” around the coffin as if they were holding a service for the people who have died due to a lack of health care.
“Marilyn died at age 63 of cancer,” one woman said before placing a red carnation on the casket. Another person gave a speech about how her premiums were higher than her mortgage payments.
These types of protests are going on all over the country to support health care reform. How do you feel about the issue?
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