They’re activists from the anti-private sector, lobbyist-fueled Health Care for America Now (HCAN). This isn’t just a group of people who want to make sure everyone receives health care. It’s a group who wants the government to take over the health sector and despises the very presence of private sector options.

They’re small in numbers but terribly loud and have the ear of far too many in Washington. Now they’re declaring the offices of private insurers “crime scenes”, apparently because these insurers object to the government taking over the health care industry and driving them out of business. Go figure.

The six people in Monday’s protest were blocking the doors to the Minnetonka headquarters of insurer UnitedHealth Group.

On Tuesday, thousands rallied in California in front of Anthem Blue Cross offices in cities from San Francisco down the coast to San Diego.

The Health Care for America Now group is organizing similar protests in front of offices of major private health insurance companies to officially declare them a crime scene.

Health Care for America Now is making a strong push for federal healthcare reform legislation to include the so-called public option, which would add government-supported medical insurance into the mix available for the currently uninsured.

And would drive private sector options out of business, being unable to compete with the government option that Congress can and will rig the system in favor of. Never mind the fact that the government-run option won’t have to make a profit and can, in fact, drive the country and its taxpayers significantly further into debt. Meanwhile, the insurance companies have to make a profit. So we’ll be left only with the government-run option and subsequent single-payer, socialized system.

About 110 protesters sang and spoke about the need to change the way health care is organized and financed in the United States, and said that insurers such as UnitedHealth are making people sicker because the system doesn’t offer proper coverage for many patients.

I have UnitedHealth insurance, and I’ve become sick many a time while a customer of the company. It’s news to me that I’m sicker because of my voluntary policy with the company. It might cost me a bit of money for the policy, but the few times I’ve had to stay in the hospital haven’t driven me into bankruptcy.

They cited what they said is UnitedHealth’s practice of “denying care and claims in order to generate record profits.”

The demonstration was organized by a group called Health Care for America Now in Minnesota, a coalition of labor unions, faith groups and activist organizations, including Education Minnesota, the AFL-CIO and Isaiah, a social justice group that includes more than 60 congregations.

Unlike the proposed public option, of course, which President Obama has already admitted will end up denying necessary procedures in order to stop the country from being completely driven into bankruptcy. So…uh…you’ll be told your procedure won’t be covered by the government rather than by a private sector option you can voluntarily change or leave. Fantastic