HRC Whistleblower, Wendell Potter Tells It Like it Is - Countdown

Run time: 05:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOe8zpHWgio   Posted on YouTube: December 17, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 17, 2009 By DU Member: tomm2thumbs Views on DU: 852

 
Wendell Potter, after working for (and now against) the health care corporate interests, puts the sweetheart deal of the current healthcare bill (as it has been chiseled and chipped away) in true light. He notes how the Insurance Industry has 'outfoxed the White House, outfoxed the Democratic leadership... they knew who they would have to go after to try and make sure they would get what they'd want...'

He also explains exactly how, under the proposed bill being heralded as 'preventing pre-existing conditions', they will use the bill's own language to go around the rules to, in fact, charge more to patients with pre-existing conditions. He also mentions that for some people, medical expenses (mandated) under the bill will be as high as 22% of their income - although he notes the average is still 17%. He foresees bankruptcies based on these numbers to be in the millions of Americans as a result.

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As a former executive from Cigna, this guy knows how this works and he is clearly not saying anything he hasn't seen happen behind the scenes already.

Kill it dead. Start over.