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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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Saturday, June 20, 2015
For-profit hospitals mark up prices Commentary: huge markups are routine, and there's nothing to stop them
Saturday, June 20, 2015For-profit hospitals mark up prices Commentary: huge markups are routine, and there's nothing to stop them
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Premiums Skyrocketing Where Health Insurers Have Their Way With State Legislators, As in Maine
Sunday, October 9, 2011Premiums Skyrocketing Where Health Insurers Have Their Way With State Legislators, As in Maine
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
The Insurance Industry's Scheme to Circumvent Reform and Make You Pay More Than Ever for Health Care In its ongoing attempt to weaken a key provision of the health care reform law -- the one that requires insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical care -- the insurance industry is predicting dire consequences for people enrolled in health savings accounts (HSAs) if lawmakers don't act soon.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011The Insurance Industry's Scheme to Circumvent Reform and Make You Pay More Than Ever for Health Care In its ongoing attempt to weaken a key provision of the health care reform law -- the one that requires insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical care -- the insurance industry is predicting dire consequences for people enrolled in health savings accounts (HSAs) if lawmakers don't act soon.
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Friday, June 26, 2015
Insurers' arguments key to Supreme Court decision It is clear from both the first paragraph and closing comments in the Supreme Court's decision upholding Obamacare subsidies that the justices listened more closely to the insurance industry than perhaps any other party.
Friday, June 26, 2015Insurers' arguments key to Supreme Court decision It is clear from both the first paragraph and closing comments in the Supreme Court's decision upholding Obamacare subsidies that the justices listened more closely to the insurance industry than perhaps any other party.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Health Care Myths and Realties: Seeking the truth about high-deductible plans. Health Insurance companies suggest that companies who haven't moved all of their employees into a high-deductible plan are inept. But studies by nonprofit organizations that don't sell insurance have found that high-deductible plans "have significantly greater difficulty" accessing care due to cost compared to people in plans with lower or no deductible, and that people who are very sick are at a particular disadvantage.
Monday, February 27, 2012Health Care Myths and Realties: Seeking the truth about high-deductible plans. Health Insurance companies suggest that companies who haven't moved all of their employees into a high-deductible plan are inept. But studies by nonprofit organizations that don't sell insurance have found that high-deductible plans "have significantly greater difficulty" accessing care due to cost compared to people in plans with lower or no deductible, and that people who are very sick are at a particular disadvantage.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
A Determined Dog Goes After Insurers Again to Save Consumers Billions If there is one organization that insurers despise and fear more than any other, it surely must be Consumer Watchdog. Since its founding in 1985, Los Angeles-based Consumer Watchdog has dogged insurers relentlessly and played a key role numerous times in forcing them to change business practices and price their policies more fairly. I first heard of the organization in 1996 when I was still an insurance industry spokesman.
Monday, November 14, 2011A Determined Dog Goes After Insurers Again to Save Consumers Billions If there is one organization that insurers despise and fear more than any other, it surely must be Consumer Watchdog. Since its founding in 1985, Los Angeles-based Consumer Watchdog has dogged insurers relentlessly and played a key role numerous times in forcing them to change business practices and price their policies more fairly. I first heard of the organization in 1996 when I was still an insurance industry spokesman.
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Monday, June 22, 2015
Industry lobbies hard to snuff out tax on medical devices Industry contributions and lobbying convince U.S. House to repeal tax on medical devices, endangering Obamacare.
Monday, June 22, 2015Industry lobbies hard to snuff out tax on medical devices Industry contributions and lobbying convince U.S. House to repeal tax on medical devices, endangering Obamacare.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021
COVID Bill is a Windfall for Health Insurance Companies As a former health insurance exec who quit the business, let me tell you: No one will be more excited about the new COVID-19 package than my old friends in the corporate insurance industry.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021COVID Bill is a Windfall for Health Insurance Companies As a former health insurance exec who quit the business, let me tell you: No one will be more excited about the new COVID-19 package than my old friends in the corporate insurance industry.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Mitt Romney's Health Care Fantasy World Wendell Potter explains that not everyone can cavalierly "fire" their insurance companies, as Mitt Romney boast he enjoys doing. In the real world the insurance company holds all the cards, we have little choice but to go submit to their demands.
Monday, January 16, 2012Mitt Romney's Health Care Fantasy World Wendell Potter explains that not everyone can cavalierly "fire" their insurance companies, as Mitt Romney boast he enjoys doing. In the real world the insurance company holds all the cards, we have little choice but to go submit to their demands.
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Help Health Care Advocate Donna Smith Get the Care She Needs--And Pay the $855 Aetna is Demanding Donna Smith has worked tirelessly to gain healthcare for every American. Please help her now.
Sunday, May 26, 2013Help Health Care Advocate Donna Smith Get the Care She Needs--And Pay the $855 Aetna is Demanding Donna Smith has worked tirelessly to gain healthcare for every American. Please help her now.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Judge Amy Coney Barret's Laughable Thinking on Health Insurance Judge Amy Coney Barrett says she'd base rulings about health insurance on how "the founders" might have intended. This might make sense if health insurance companies actually existed then. As a former insurance executive, here's why her approach is laughable when it comes to health care.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020Judge Amy Coney Barret's Laughable Thinking on Health Insurance Judge Amy Coney Barrett says she'd base rulings about health insurance on how "the founders" might have intended. This might make sense if health insurance companies actually existed then. As a former insurance executive, here's why her approach is laughable when it comes to health care.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Rick Santorum Would be Best President Health Insurers' Money Could Buy Wendell Potter exposes presidential candidate Rick Santorum's role as the best friend the health insurance industry had while representing Pennsylvania in the Senate.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012Rick Santorum Would be Best President Health Insurers' Money Could Buy Wendell Potter exposes presidential candidate Rick Santorum's role as the best friend the health insurance industry had while representing Pennsylvania in the Senate.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Park City Vantage Point Puts Tragedy of American Health Care in Vivid Relief A grieving Canadian family faces financial ruin because their daughter fell ill and died in the U.S. Only in America could this happen. If there was ever a case for single-payer healthcare this is it.
Monday, January 23, 2012Park City Vantage Point Puts Tragedy of American Health Care in Vivid Relief A grieving Canadian family faces financial ruin because their daughter fell ill and died in the U.S. Only in America could this happen. If there was ever a case for single-payer healthcare this is it.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Doing "As Much Harm As Possible' to Florida's Insured - Republicans continue to fight Obamacare in Sunshine State First do no harm. That's a tenet of medical ethics that future doctors worldwide are taught in medical school. If only the people we elect to represent us were required to take such an oath. Florida state lawmakers recently passed a law that will allow health insurance companies to gouge Floridians and will actually be required by law to mislead their Florida customers about why they're hiking their premiums.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013Doing "As Much Harm As Possible' to Florida's Insured - Republicans continue to fight Obamacare in Sunshine State First do no harm. That's a tenet of medical ethics that future doctors worldwide are taught in medical school. If only the people we elect to represent us were required to take such an oath. Florida state lawmakers recently passed a law that will allow health insurance companies to gouge Floridians and will actually be required by law to mislead their Florida customers about why they're hiking their premiums.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Marcus Welby, M.D. Had it Right: House Calls Save Money and Improve Care Dr. Bruce Kinosian still makes house calls. He's convinced that if more doctors did what he does, and as the TV character Marcus Welby did back in the '60s and '70s, we could eliminate billions of dollars we currently spend in this country in an often ineffective -- and almost always unnecessarily expensive -- effort to get people well.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011Marcus Welby, M.D. Had it Right: House Calls Save Money and Improve Care Dr. Bruce Kinosian still makes house calls. He's convinced that if more doctors did what he does, and as the TV character Marcus Welby did back in the '60s and '70s, we could eliminate billions of dollars we currently spend in this country in an often ineffective -- and almost always unnecessarily expensive -- effort to get people well.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
The High Cost of Allowing Health Insurers to Continue Keeping Us in the Dark Wendell Potter cdontinues to hold the Administration's feet to the fire as it implements the Affordable Care Act
Thursday, January 26, 2012The High Cost of Allowing Health Insurers to Continue Keeping Us in the Dark Wendell Potter cdontinues to hold the Administration's feet to the fire as it implements the Affordable Care Act
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
An Outbreak of Sanity There is reason to be hopeful that our lawmakers can put aside their ideological differences every now and then and do what makes sense for constituents. In fact, last week some of the people we have elected to represent us--at least at the state level--even showed a willingness to put careers at risk by doing what they believe is the right thing.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013An Outbreak of Sanity There is reason to be hopeful that our lawmakers can put aside their ideological differences every now and then and do what makes sense for constituents. In fact, last week some of the people we have elected to represent us--at least at the state level--even showed a willingness to put careers at risk by doing what they believe is the right thing.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Is Crony Capitalism a Big Reason for America's Dental Health Care Crisis? For an example of how Big Money in politics is causing real harm to average Americans, look at the practice of dentistry in this country. The United States is facing a dental care crisis for a number of reasons. First, dental care has become so expensive many of us can't afford to go the dentist.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016Is Crony Capitalism a Big Reason for America's Dental Health Care Crisis? For an example of how Big Money in politics is causing real harm to average Americans, look at the practice of dentistry in this country. The United States is facing a dental care crisis for a number of reasons. First, dental care has become so expensive many of us can't afford to go the dentist.
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Industry Pushes High-Deductible Insurance Plans Increasingly, employers of all sizes are eliminating choice and offering only high-deductible plans -- euphemistically referred to in the insurance world as consumer-directed health plans or HDHPs. Within the next few years, most Americans not only will find that the plans they've been enrolled in for years are no longer available, but that they will also have to pay much more out-of-pocket
Friday, April 5, 2013Industry Pushes High-Deductible Insurance Plans Increasingly, employers of all sizes are eliminating choice and offering only high-deductible plans -- euphemistically referred to in the insurance world as consumer-directed health plans or HDHPs. Within the next few years, most Americans not only will find that the plans they've been enrolled in for years are no longer available, but that they will also have to pay much more out-of-pocket
