Health Insurance Insider to Testify Before Senate

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Health Insurance Insider to Testify Before Senate

Submitted by _ Stauber_ (http://www.prwatch.org/user/4) on June 23,

2009 - 12:57pm.

Media Advisory for June 24, 2009:

HEALTH INSURANCE INSIDER TO TESTIFY BEFORE SENATE

Contact: Page Metcalf, _Center for Media and Democracy_

(http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/index.html)

Phone: (608) 260-9713

Email: editor AT prwatch.org

Former Executive Warns Congress: Don’t Be Fooled by For-Profit Industry’s

Misleading Campaign

Washington, DC – _Wendell Potter_

(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wendell_Potter) , a former health

insurance industry insider, will

testify before the full Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday June 24, 2009 at

2:30 p.m. EST, exposing the health insurance industry’s resistance to

needed health care reform.

Mr. Potter spent more than 20 years as a public relations executive for two

large health insurers - Cigna and Humana - but left the industry after

witnessing practices he felt harmed American health care consumers. To him,

there was a heart-breaking discrepancy between Americans struggling to find

affordable, comprehensive coverage and wealthy insurance executives who

based their premium charges – and coverage decisions – on profits rather

than

people’s health care needs. He has decided to come forward in the hopes of

stopping the health insurance industry from once again derailing meaningful

reform.

He will testify about how big, for-profit insurers have hijacked our health

care system and turned it into a giant ATM for Wall Street investors and

how the industry is using its massive wealth and influence to determine what

is (and is not) included in the legislation currently before Congress.

WHO: Wendell Potter, Former Health Insurance Executive (Cigna and Humana

Inc.) and Senior Fellow on Health Care with the _Center for Media and

Democracy_ (http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/index.html) , exposing the industry and

telling Congress, “Don’t buy the hype.â€

WHAT: Hearing on “Consumer Choices and Transparency in the Health Insurance

Industry,â€

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

WHEN: Wednesday June 24, 2009 Hearing Start Time: 2:30 pm Press Pre-Set

Time: 1:45 pm

WHERE: Room 253, Senate Office Building

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follow suit. There was a girl who worked for UNUM who knew I was being

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sac> Health Insurance Insider to Testify Before Senate

sac> Submitted by _ Stauber_ (http://www.prwatch.org/user/4) on June 23,

sac> 2009 - 12:57pm.

sac> Media Advisory for June 24, 2009:

sac> HEALTH INSURANCE INSIDER TO TESTIFY BEFORE SENATE

sac> Contact: Page Metcalf, _Center for Media and Democracy_

sac> (http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/index.html)

sac> Phone: (608) 260-9713

sac> Email: editor AT prwatch.org