Ocean State Action, an umbrella group of public sector unions, advocates for low income Rhode Islanders, and social justice groups, staged a protest against United Healthcare late Tuesday afternoon.

The group claims United denies claims and care in order to boost its profit for its shareholders and that it is working against health care reform.

“Their obligation under the corporate laws of America is to protect their shareholders first, and the patients somewhere down the land,” said George Nee, President of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO.

“We need to stop this and the way to do that is through a public option.”

Ed Benson, a Pawtucket resident and Moveon.org member, spoke emotionally about his late wife’s struggles with cancer in the late nineties.

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