A Health Insurance Insider Offers Words of Advice
From The New York Times By Walecia Konrad, Feb. 18, 2011 WENDELL POTTER is a 20-year health insurance veteran who served in top public relations jobs at such firms as Cigna and Humana. Now a senior...
View ArticleHow the Health Insurance Industry (and I) Invented the ‘Choice’ Talking Point
It was always misleading. Now Democrats are repeating it. By Wendell Potter, Jan. 14, 2020 Mr. Potter is a former insurance executive. There’s a dangerous talking point being repeated in the...
View ArticleMillions of Americans are about to lose their health insurance in a pandemic
By Wendell Potter, 27 Mar 2020 The tragic effects of our battle with the novel coronavirus are seemingly endless. But arguably the most mind-blowing is this: the very pandemic that threatens to infect...
View Article‘They Know How to Bamboozle People’: Former Insurance Exec Says Industry Will...
Shortly after Nataline Sarkisyan died at age 17 in 2007, Wendell Potter quit his job at Cigna. The health insurance giant had initially denied Sarkisyan a liver transplant. Days later, the potentially...
View ArticleEarly Coronavirus Testing Restrictions Led To Some Big ER Bills
July 6, 20205:00 AM ET JULIE APPLEBY Fresh off a Caribbean cruise in early March, John Campbell developed a cough and fever of 104 degrees. He went to his primary care physician and got a flu test,...
View ArticleThe health care scare: I sold Americans a lie about Canadian medicine. Now...
By Wendell Potter AUGUST 6, 2020 In my prior life as an insurance executive, it was my job to deceive Americans about their health care. I misled people to protect profits. In fact, one of my major...
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