Wendell Potter

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Exclusive: MoveOn Whacks Finance Bill Hours Before Committee Vote

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Potter Ad Moveon, Senate Finance Committee, Moveon Senate Finance Bill, Reform Ads, Ad Wars, Moveon Ad Senate Finance, . Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Moveon Public Option, Moveon Potter, Politics News

Just hours before the Senate Finance Committee is set to vote (and likely pass) its version of health care reform legislation, the liberal advocacy gr...

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Health Care Politiku

Susanna Speier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Not at all surprising, when I sent out my Health Care Politiku submission query I was swamped with phenomenal submissions.

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Cigna CEO Hanway: Obstacle to Health Insurance Reform

Peter Dreier | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Business Roundtable, Edward Hanway, Health Care for America Now, Cigna, Lobbying, Hcan, Health Care Reform, Natalin Sarkisyan, Wendell Potter, America's Health Insurance Plans, Health Insurance Reform, Campaign Contributions, Politics News

Natalin Sarkisyan was a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., who had leukemia and needed a liver transplant. Cigna said the procedure was "too risky." In December 2007, Sarkisyan died.

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Howard Dean, Max Baucus, Upton Sinclair, Andrew Gelman, Eleanor Clift, Law-of-Unintended-Consequences, Bob Dole, Tom Daschle, Politics News

The president is spending too much political capital on this one issue, health care. It forces the issue. Either a landmark generational bill is passed or failure lurks.

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Standing for Meaningful Health Reform

Gerald McEntee | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama-Afl-Cio-Convention, Baucus Plan, Wendell Potter, Health Reform, Politics News

The Senate Finance Committee is preparing to debate a health care bill that doesn't meet the needs of America's working families. Nor does it meet the standards Obama laid out in his address to Congress.

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Wendell Potter: Public Option Essential, Baucus Plan An "Absolute Gift" To Health Insurance Industry (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Plan, Video, Public Option, Max Baucus, Wendell Potter, Health Care, Wendell Potter Testimony, Health Care Public Option, Politics News

Speaking before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee Tuesday, former health insurance industry executive-turned-whistleblower Wendell Po...

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Wendell Potter and Health Insurance Industry Misinformation

Jake Whitney | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Cigna, Whistleblower, Death Panels, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Government Takeover, Wendell Potter, Democrats, Bureaucrat, Republicans, Politics News

Potter was vice president of corporate communications for Cigna, the fourth biggest health insurance company in America, when he decided to resign and become a public advocate for reform.

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Obama Needs To Become Our Whistleblower-In-Chief

Jamie Court | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Drug Companies, President Obama, Politics News

Wednesday's presidential address to Congress is the moment for President Obama to prove he is a real outsider, and the fate of genuine health care reform depends upon it.

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Max Baucus Celebrates Labor Day by Ruining Health Care Reform

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Plan Trigger, Public Option Trigger, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Max Baucus, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Max Baucus Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

Baucus isn't proposing a reform solution that will benefit a majority of Americans. He's shifting the burden from the insurance companies to employers, and ultimately to employees.

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You May Need a Score Card for Health Care Reform

Scott Lilly | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Politics, Congress, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Stephen Hemsley, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Medicare, UnitedHealth Group, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Medical-Loss Ratio, Barack Obama, Business News

It's impossible to fashion a health care system that does not have doctors, medications, and hospitals -- but it is quite easy to imagine a system without private insurers. In fact, private insurers play little if any role in the health care systems of most countries in the world.

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Pollster Behind Controversial Public Option Poll Has Long Ties To Insurance Industry

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cleinda Lake, Poll Public Option, Insurance Companies, Bill McInturff Change, Bill McInturff Ahip, Bill McInturff Research, Bill McInturff Polling, Bill McInturff Ahip Poll, Wendell Potter, Bill McInturff Wendell Potter, Bill Mcinturff, NBC/WSJ Poll, Politics News

The Republican half of the bipartisan team of pollsters behind a new, controversial poll on health care has longstanding ties to the health insurance ...

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I Am a Business Owner, and I Fully Support a Public Health Option

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Public Option, Tommy Thompson, Health, Pharma Films, Health Care Reform, Howard Dean, Wendell Potter, Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety, Pharma Movies, Health Care, Paul Ryan, Howard Dean Interview, Pharma, Big Pharma Health Care Reform, Public Health Option, Politics News

I am not an expert on health care reform. But I am an individual who is sick and tired of having one industry have so much control over my personal and business life.

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Ex-Insurance Exec: Industry "Playbook" At Work Against Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Health Reform, Health Care, Louise Slaughter, Politics News

The latest wave of attacks on health care reform are straight from the insurance-company "playbook," a former industry vice president told reporters a...

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The Tyranny of Wall St.-Run Health Care: No CEO Left Behind

Michele Swenson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corporate Bureaucrats, CEO Ron Williams, Wall St.-Run Health Care, Underinsured, Survival-of-the-Fittest Capitalism, Stock Options, Cigna, Corporate and Washington Entitlement, Congresspersons-Turned-Industry Lobbyists, CEO Karen Ignani, Medical Loss Ratios, Uninsured, Insurance Acquisitions and Mergers, Wellpoint, Shrinking Health Coverage Competition, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Government-Run Health Care, Socialism, Aetna, Ahip, Privileged vs. Undeserving Underclass, William McGuire, Bill Moyers, Politics News

The insurance industry has shifted to selling so-called "consumer-driven" plans with very high deductibles that shift a great deal of health care cost from employers and insurers to individuals.

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Will The White House Embrace CIGNA Whistleblower? (VIDEO)

Jamie Court | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Universal Health Care, Obama, Cigna, Politics News

Former CIGNA executive Wendell Potter is the linchpin in the Democratic strategy to show the middle class that health insurance reform will help them.

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The Simple Health Insurance Solution

Don McNay | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Insurance Companies, Obama Healthcare, Congress, Park Foundation, Obama, Health Insurance, Aetna, Kentucky Educational Television, Politics, Cnbc, Government-Subsidies, Richmond Ky, Nancy Pelosi, Wendell Potter, Partridge Foundation, Wnet, Kohlberg Foundation, Premium, Bernard and Audrey Rapoport, Health Care, PBS Documentaries, Blue Dog Democrats, Hillary Care, Ronnie Millsap, P&C Companies, Pbs, Marilyn and Bob Clements, Property and Casualty Insurance Companies, Insurance Agents, Fetzer Institute, The Herb Alpert Foundation, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Fox Business News, Ben Chandler, Public Welfare Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Clu, Health, Hartford, Health Care Reform, Million Dollar Round Table, Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, Bill-Moyers-Journal, Hillary Clinton, Mitch McConnell, Anthem, President Obama, Medical-Loss Ratios, Cigna, Orfalea Family, Aig, Insurance Premium, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, American College, Personal Finance, Bill Moyers, Bill Clinton, Msfs, Life Insurance Companies, Chfc, Kentucky, Don McNay, Thirteen/WNET, Structured Settlements, Vanderbilt University, Claims Adjusters, Eastern Kentucky University, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, John and Polly Guth Charitable Fund, Ket, Business News

I've had my own angry, screaming battles with my health insurance carrier. It seems everyone I've talked to has had a similar experience. I just don't see them marching on Washington about it.

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Healthcare Exec Turned Whistleblower Thinks America Needs Universal Coverage

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Max Baucus, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

I interviewed Wendell Potter, the former chief PR person for one of the nation's largest insurers, who is now a whistleblower for Big Health, which he blames for leaving millions of Americans uninsured.

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Fear and Waiting: What the Wise County Clinic Means This Year

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 08.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Virginia, Consumers Union, Wise County, Offthebus Citizen Journalism, Stan Brock, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Cigna, Frank Luntz, Frank Luntz Healthcare, Health Care, Healthcare, Bill Moyers, Eyes and Ears, Home News

A free medical clinic in the poor southwestern part of Virginia treated over 1,500 patients, some driving up to five hours and sleeping in their cars to secure a place in line.

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