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* ''Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans'' (November 16, 2010; [[Bloomsbury Press]]; ISBN 978-1-60819-281-6)<ref>http://www.bloomsburypress.com/books/catalog/deadly_spin_hc_816</ref> |
* ''Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans'' (November 16, 2010; [[Bloomsbury Press]]; ISBN 978-1-60819-281-6)<ref>http://www.bloomsburypress.com/books/catalog/deadly_spin_hc_816</ref> |
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**[http://www.alternet.org/books/149204/deadly_spin%3A_an_insurance_company_insider_speaks_out_on_how_corporate_pr_is_killing_health_care_and_deceiving_americans_/?page=1 The Beginning] |
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**[http://static.michaelmoore.com/pdf/Ch2%20from%20DeadlySpin_final.pdf The Campaign Against ''Sicko''] |
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Revision as of 00:40, 22 December 2010
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Wendell Potter is former Vice President of corporate communications at CIGNA,[1] one of the United States' largest health insurance companies. In June 2009, he testified against the HMO industry in the U.S. Senate as a whistleblower.[1][2][3][4]
Potter began his journey towards resigning and becoming a whistleblower in July 2007, when he saw a touring free clinic run by Remote Area Medical in rural Virginia.
"What he saw appalled him. Hundreds of desperate people, most without any medical insurance, descended on the clinic from out of the hills. People queued in long lines to have the most basic medical procedures carried out free of charge. Some had driven more than 200 miles from Georgia. Many were treated in the open air. Potter took pictures of patients lying on trolleys on rain-soaked pavements."[3]
Potter resigned in 2008 and became an active voice on health care reform in 2009, as it became clear to him that the insurance industry and its allies were having a distorting effect on the national debate.[5][6]
On September 15, 2009, Potter appeared before the United States House of Representatives Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. Potter said in his opening statement that if Congress "fails to create a public insurance option to compete with private insurers, the bill it sends to the president might as well be called the Insurance Industry Profit Protection and Enhancement Act."[7]
Potter's November 2010 book Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans details much of the industry's deceitful tactics, putting them in historical context by drawing parallels to the tobacco industry and the history of manipulative public relations, gives a history of health reform, and shares his own personal journey.
Now a senior analyst at the Center for Public Integrity, a fellow at the Center for Media and Democracy, and a consumer liaison representative to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, among other things, he has appeared in high-profile interviews with Bill Moyers and various others.
Books
- Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans (November 16, 2010; Bloomsbury Press; ISBN 978-1-60819-281-6)[8]
References
- ^ a b The Washington Post, 25 June 2009, Senate Panel Hears of Health Insurers' Wrongs: Ex-Insider Testifies to 'Fear Tactics'
- ^ “They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors”: Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry
- ^ a b The Guardian, 27 July 2009, Whistleblower tells of America's hidden nightmare for its sick poor
- ^ Senate testimony
- ^ Potter, Wendell (2009) "The Health Care Industry vs. Health Reform". Center for Media and Democracy website, retrieved 5 Aug 2009
- ^ Wendell Potter, (1st person) Commentary: How insurance firms drive debate
- ^ The Public Record, Exec Wendell Potter: I Don’t Think Co-ops Have A Chance To Succeed Or Compete
- ^ http://www.bloomsburypress.com/books/catalog/deadly_spin_hc_816
External links
- Official Wendell Potter website
- Audio interview by Prof. Robert W. McChesney on September 6, 2009.
- Jake Whitney interviews Wendell Potter in Guernica magazine.
- Potter Blasts Senate Panel Rejection of Public Insurance Option - video report by Democracy Now!.
- Interview with Bill Moyers. on July 10, 2009
- Wendell Potter on his new book Deadly Spin - video interview by Democracy Now!