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Brooklyn’s Main Street comes to Wall Street

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:30:05 +0000

Members of the Brooklyn-based mock protests group Billionaires for Wealthcare were also in attendance in fake pearls and suits.

Two Years of Veiled Threats From Tea Partier to Counterprotester

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:11:38 +0000

Alex was leading a group called “Billionaires for Wealthcare,” the same group who punk’d an AHIP meeting with a musical protest in October.

Billionaires for Wealthcare Counter-Protest at Tea Party

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:39:59 +0000

A lone tea party member stood near City Hall in San Francisco’s Civic Center when two Raging Grannies (aka Billionaires for Wealthcare) showed up after a climate action gig nearby.

Crashing the Crashers: Tea Party Infiltrators Outmaneuvered in S.F.

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:57:45 +0000

Turns out at first that the only volunteers for disruption duty were members of the satirical group Billionaires for Bush, who recently have renamed themselves Billionaires for Wealthcare.

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SF’s Tax Day protests: Progressives 300, Teabaggers 4

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:54:38 +0000

“Billionaires for Wealthcare,” was the sign one held, while the other’s read, “Blue Cross, Palin, 2012,” advocating that we cut out the middle man and elect Blue Cross as the next president, with Sarah Palin as its running mate.

Health care’s debatable moments

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:54:47 +0000

CNN’s Jeanne Moos highlights the most memorable oddball moments from the health care debate.

SFPD Summoned to Protect Blue Cross Executives

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:22:22 +0000

Meanwhile, four Billionaires for Wealthcare who had followed the Single Payer demonstrators to Anthem Blue Cross HQ had demands of their own. They insisted that Angela meet them for cocktails at “the club” and when San Francisco police arrived pleaded with them to arrest the “unruly riff-raff”. Billionaire Eunice Wentworth was overheard to say to officers, “What? We OWN you! Arrest these silly people immediately! And call my manicurist, I’ve chipped a nail!”

Billionaires for Wealthcare at Health Care Reform Protest in San Francisco

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:45:59 +0000

Steve Rhodes on flickr.com under Creative Commons License

Billionaires for Wealthcare supported the status quo during a health care reform protest outside the office of Anthem Blue Cross. San Francisco, USA. 18/03/2010.

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Activists demanded to meet with someone from the company, but were just given the number for media relations in Boston. One of the Billionaires left a message on their voice mail complaining about the protesters.

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Unions Protest AHIP Convention at Ritz

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:17 +0000

One group of young people came as fat-cat insurance executives, wearing suits, top hats and smoking cigars. They sported signs reading “United Wealth Care” and “Inhumana,” spoofing the well-known health care companies United Healthcare and Humana.

Health Care Protesters Face Off Against Insurance Lobbyists

Billionaires For Wealthcare — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:23:11 +0000

A colorful group of mock counter-protesters stood outside of the Ritz dressed in suits and ball gowns. Part of “Billionaires for Wealth Care,” they held signs that merely praised the status quo.

“We hate the public option because that would force us to compete,” said a man who identified himself as “Max Profit”. He was joined by his friends: “Rob Patient”, “Zee Roe Compassion” and “Heidi Ductable.” “In several markets, there is a near oligarchy with just a couple of insurance companies with 90% of the market share and we love it that way,” Profit said.