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Tammy Murphy shares her experience with Independence Blue Cross. (Kenny Cooper / WHYY)
Dozens of protesters from the activist group Put People First! PA marched in front of the Center City offices of health care providers and health insurers Saturday to call attention to what they describe as “health care profiteering” during a global pandemic.
Philadelphia is a major health care hub, and the organizers of the protest wanted to leverage the stage the city provides.
“We felt like we have an obligation to lift that up and … make the invisible, visible, and show the relationships between the health care industry in Philadelphia, which, again, is connected nationally and globally with Wall Street, with the political system, and even the media system,” said Nijmie Dzurinko, a co-coordinator of the Philadelphia Healthcare Rights Committee of Put People First! PA.