Chicago may have hosted one of the most famous hospital-centric television shows of all time, but a new report suggests that the reality of health car...
Wendell Potter | Posted 04.28.2012
One of the reasons I left my job in the health insurance industry was because I could not in good conscience continue to promote high-deductible plans, often marketed as "consumer-driven" plans, as wise choices for most Americans.
Wendell Potter | Posted 01.28.2012
Americans are not getting nearly as much bang for the health care buck as citizens of most other developed countries -- and even some countries in the developing world.
Wendell Potter | Posted 01.07.2012
Lies about the reform law have also gone viral on the Internet. That's not new, but it appears from emails friends and acquaintances forward to me that the dissemination of bogus information has picked up.
Wendell Potter | Posted 08.28.2011
If the health insurance industry gets its way, not only will it be able to gut important provisions of the health care reform law, it will put all of us in a forced march into inadequate plans, and, at the same time, into the swelling ranks of the underinsured.
Wendell Potter | Posted 05.28.2011
One of the reasons I left my job as a PR executive for the health insurance industry was because I could not in good conscience be a pitchman for the sort of fabulously profitable benefit plan that often provides little more than the illusion of coverage.
Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011
Cable news commentators regularly announce that the United States has, "by far," the best health care system in the world, while Republicans work to halt any modifications by Obama. Bon santé!
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — What's all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats' push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carrier...
Harry Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's stop pretending some insurance plan will cure the medical ills that assault us.
Posted 04.03.2012