Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
A Economics, Business, Health book. I finished this book in one day. Part of it was because I had lots of time to read....
Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare. In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior VP of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar PR campaigns designed to spread disinformation.Potter had walked away from a six-figure salary and two decades as an insurance executive because he could no longer abide the routine practices of an industry where the needs of sick and suffering Americans take a backseat to the bottom line. The last straw: when he visited a rural health clinic and saw hundreds of people standing in line in the rain to receive treatment in stalls built for livestock.In Deadly Spin, Potter takes readers behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of our absurd healthcare spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and...
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He's wrong about Obama. Corporatism is not a Dem or Rep thing. Oligarchs own BOTH parties. D vs. R is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Ocare is just a gov enforced payout to insurance co. We get rationed healthcare. Costs are already going up and ins co say they don't have enough money....can't afford 100 million bonuses?... I finished this book in one day. Part of it was because I had lots of time to read. But part of it was because I really enjoyed the topic. This is a book that everyone needs to read because the more informed we are as consumers and voters and American citizens, the harder it will be for BIG corporations to pull the wool over our eyes... The author, Wendell Potter, used to work for Cigna. His job there was to essentially make his health insurance company look good even if he had to spin the truth to do it. He eventually realized he was unhappy enough with what he was doing to quit this very high paying job of his. He eventually ended up testifying for health care reform...
