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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Takes On Health Insurance Industry | OccupyWallSt.org #OWS

Occupy Wall Street Takes On Health Insurance Industry | OccupyWallSt.org:

OCCUPY WALL STREET TAKES ON HEALTH-INSURANCE INDUSTRY

NYC, NY Oct. 26 – Wall Street’s control of health care is exposed in a march/speak-out today that starts at the offices of Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, a subsidiary of WellPoint, the largest publicly-traded health insurance company. We are gathering at Liberty Square at 3pm and marching at 4:30pm!

Empire is housed across the street from the OWS encampment in the same building as Brookfield Properties, the multinational that owns Liberty Square (formerly Zuccotti Park). WellPoint’s CEO, Angela Braley, was