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Wendell Potter

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for 20 years, Wendell Potter worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies, and saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick -- all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.
Wendell Potter is an Analyst at the Center for Public Integrity; Former insurance company executive; Author of Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans and and Obamacare: What’s in It for Me? What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act

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Does the U.S. Have the World's Best Health Care System? Yes, If You're Talking About the Third World

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Obama's False Friends of Health Reform

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Blue Shield's PR Coup

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Health Care Myths and Realties: Seeking the truth about high-deductible plans.

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Why Americans Pay So Much for Health Care: Friends in High Places (Just Not Your Friends)

Got Health Insurance? Pray You Won't Get "Purged"

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How big pharma buys goodwill: Set up a foundation, stage media events, please politicians

How We All Got Stuck Paying the Medical Bills of the Woman Who Sued to Kill Obamacare

Getting young people to work against their own best interests: here's how it's done

Premiums Skyrocketing Where Health Insurers Have Their Way With State Legislators, As in Maine

The Battle for Vermont's Health

Doing "As Much Harm As Possible' to Florida's Insured - Republicans continue to fight Obamacare in Sunshine State

Rate Shock' Will Be at Heart of New Scare Campaign Against Obamacare

The High Cost of Allowing Health Insurers to Continue Keeping Us in the Dark

Wendell Potter: Only in America Could Cost of Care Bankrupt Victims of Violence Like in Aurora, Colorado

A Rare Bipartisan Idea to Improve Medicaid and Save Money

Gaming Obamacare to Benefit the Few

An Outbreak of Sanity

Fed war on health care spending abuse needs to include Medicare Advantage

Mitt Romney's Health Care Fantasy World

Get Ready to Get Spun -- Again -- By Masters of Spin

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Palin's Rhetoric Torpedoed Medicare Savings

"Occupy Wall Street' Should Also Take Aim at Health Insurance Companies

Health Insurers Have Had Their Chance

Rick Santorum Would be Best President Health Insurers' Money Could Buy

Thank You, UnitedHealth Group. Your Jaw-Dropping Profit Announcement May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered.

Even the Catholic Bishops Should Bless This Health Insurance Mandate

Industry lobbies hard to snuff out tax on medical devices

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