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Thumbs up CMD's Wendell Potter Exposes Health Insurance PR

The Health Care Industry vs. Health Reform


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I'm the former insurance industry insider now speaking out about how big for-profit insurers have hijacked our [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. system and turned it into a giant ATM for Wall Street investors, and how the industry is using its massive wealth and influence to determine what is (and is not) included in the health care reform legislation members of Congress are now writing.
Although by most measures I had a great career in the insurance industry (four years at Humana and nearly 15 at [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. ), in recent years I had grown increasingly uncomfortable serving as one of the industry's top PR executives. In addition to my responsibilities at CIGNA, which included serving as the company's chief spokesman to the media on all corporate and financial matters, I also served on a lot of trade association committees and industry-financed coalitions, many of which were essentially [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. for insurers. So I was in a unique position to see not only how Wall Street analysts and investors influence decisions insurance company executives make but also how the industry has carried out behind-the-scenes [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. and [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. campaigns to kill or weaken any health care reform efforts that threatened insurers' profitability.
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