By Think Progress

Protesters disrupted a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on health care today, interrupting speaker Scott Serota, the CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield. Chanting “we are the 99 percent,” the protesters stood at the luncheon event and used a “human microphone” technique to read a statement about how the “the one percent in the health care industry” is only interested in profit “at the expense of human suffering and preventable death.” The protesters decried the influence that the health insurance industry wielded in the debate over the Affordable Care Act, and called for “Medicare for all” or a “single payer health system.” Watch it:

Occupy disrupts Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO’s speech at Chamber luncheon

By Tim Mak
Politico, Nov. 14, 2011

Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupted a U.S. Chamber of Commerce luncheon featuring the President and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield this morning.

The interruption at the Chamber’s office in D.C. was caught on C-SPAN, which was broadcasting Scott Serota’s speech about the future of the health care insurance industry.

ThinkProgress, which quickly posted C-SPAN’s video of the encounter, reports that the protesters chanted, “we are the 99 percent.”

The Occupy demonstrators, using a call-and-repeat method of speaking, complained about Serota’s $2.5 million annual salary, and said that he “is an example of the 1 percent in the health care industry.”

Serota, the protesters allege, put profit ahead of human suffering.

The demonstrators appear to have been sitting at tables at the luncheon. As each protester was led out of the room, another would stand and continue reading from a prepared statement. This happened several times.

According to the video, those who interrupted the luncheon were led out of the room peacefully.

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The full video of the disruption and the speech is at C-SPAN:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Blue-Cross-CEO-Discusses-Health-Care-Business/10737425491/