Meet Melanie Shouse.
A few years ago, Melanie was living the American dream when she transformed an old Dominos storefront into an expansion of her home business. But just as the store was opening, Melanie was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer and given months to live.1
Melanie's insurance company, WellPoint, is denying her the care she needs. WellPoint's CEO will be in Washington, DC tomorrow, and we're delivering a petition to her for Melanie. Can you sign TrueMajority's petition and stand with Melanie? Click here.
Melanie had insurance, and she went straight to the experts at Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis. Working with the world-renowned doctors there, she's beaten the odds and stayed healthy for years. But now her insurance company, a subsidiary of WellPoint, is refusing to pay for the medication her doctors recommend.2
So Melanie got mad. And last week Melanie went to WellPoint's local office in St. Louis to confront CEO Angela Braly - who makes almost $10 million a year in salary and stock benefits, but defends dropping people like Melanie's insurance when they get sick.3
Braly refused to meet with Melanie, just like she had refused Melanie's medication. So Health Care for America Now and TrueMajority are following Braly to Washington, D.C. tomorrow, where she's attending a convention of the biggest insurance company executives in America.4 This conference is our best chance to give people like Melanie the opportunity to confront the insurance company CEOs who denied them care when they needed it.
Melanie and people like her will risk everything to demand that insurance CEOs stop dropping our coverage, stop denying us care and stop opposing real reform in Congress.
Can you back her up by signing TrueMajority's petition? Click here.
We've been keeping the pressure on Braly and other insurance company CEOs for almost two weeks now. We've banged on the doors of their mansions, run ads on TV, and held rallies in front of the offices of three of the biggest insurance companies in America.5 These companies - Cigna, WellPoint and UnitedHealth - insure millions of people, but they make their money by denying us care when we need it.3,6
Next week, all three companies' CEOs will be in D.C. to congratulate themselves on making record-breaking salaries and tell our Members of Congress to oppose health care reform.6 We can't let their visit go unchallenged, and you can help us send a message.
Our signatures make a simple demand: that the CEOs who make billions of dollars and deny us care meet the people they've hurt and consider doing business another way.
Sign now and we'll make sure your signature is delivered to the CEOs and to Congress tomorrow for victims like Melanie. Click here.
To your health,
Levana Layendecker
Health Care for America Now
