Democracy Now! - CIGNA Health Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out

“They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors”: Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry

As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies on Capitol Hill, we spend the hour with a former top insurance executive who’s now exposing the industry’s dirty secrets. Wendell Potter once served as the head of corporate communications at CIGNA, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. We speak to Potter about his own transformation from industry mouthpiece to whistleblower, the healthcare industry’s extensive PR and lobbying machine, the campaign to discredit Michael Moore’s film Sicko, and the insurance industry’s most pressing task: the fight against a public option, let alone a single-payer system.

Video and transcript, here: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/16/former_insurance_exec_wendell_porter

He's also featured in http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x349255">this video posted earlier.

Damn shame that threads of such importance languish in the wee hours of the morning, sinking out of sight by first light.

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