Anthem Blue Cross (owned by Wellpoint) is the biggest insurer in the state of California. Too big for their britches say health care reform activists.

It's no secret that Anthem Blue Cross has implemented an aggressive policy aimed at covering only the healthy. They do everything in their power to avoid covering those deemed high-risk because of “pre-existing conditions.” Is it any wonder that Anthem Blue Cross is called "California's most notorious private insurance company"?

At about 12:30 pm today, members of Direct Action for Single Payer and supporters willing to risk arrest broke off from a rally in Justin Herman Plaza and marched to the offices of Anthem Blue Cross at 2 Embarcadero Center in the heart of San Francisco. At first, building security stood in front of revolving doors to block protesters from entering the "inner sanctum" where high level executives including CEO Angela Braly have offfices. Then, the SFPD arrived...

Braly said recently that increases in premiums, as high as 39 percent for certain individuals, reflect higher costs from hospitals and drugmakers and denied that the company was taking too much profit. Single Payer (Medicare for All) activists demanded that Braly herself come out to speak with them. They brandished a large placard labelled "WARRANT FOR ARREST" and said they were prepared to deliver it to Braly.

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!"

There were no arrests.