Re: Ex Insurance Exec Testifies Before Senate. Powerful!!!!

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I read his testimony. Some of the practices he describes such as " purging " are

the same practices used by homeowner's insurance companies to cancel policies.

If you file a claim for water damage or mold, the insurance company cancels your

policy. And they want to make sure you don't " hurt " one of their buddies at

another insurance company by trying to get coverage somewhere else, so they put

your claims information in a huge database called CLUE. That way, the insurance

companies share claims information with each other about specific individuals or

properties. All of this is one of the reasons why the McCarran Ferguson Act

must be repealed. The McCarran Ferguson Act allows insurance companies to

ignore antitrust laws which means they get to share all kinds of information

with each other.

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Powerful!!!!

A MUST SEE video regarding the corruption in the insurance industry,

testimony by ex-insurance exec.

" ....what we have today, Mr. Chairman, is a Wall Street-run system that has

proven itself an untrustworthy partner to its customers, to the doctors

and hospitals who deliver care, and to the state and federal governments that

attempt to regulate it. "

_http://commerce. senate.gov/ public/index. cfm?FuseAction= Hearings.

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_http://commerce. senate.gov/ public/_files/ PotterTestimonyC onsumerHealthIns

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ance.pdf_

(http://commerce. senate.gov/ public/_files/ PotterTestimonyC onsumerHealthIns

urance.pdf)

Wendell Potter Exposes Health Insurance Politics and PR

_Wendell Potter_

(http://salsa. democracyinactio n.org/dia/ track.jsp? v=2 & c=6UQYas8SBC

TiTUlIdg6qd9wawf UxUHPy) came to the _Center for Media and

Democracy_

(http://salsa. democracyinactio n.org/dia/ track.jsp? v=2 & c=5WTTyX1g8L

glxWP0WDVLVNwawf UxUHPy) in May as an admirer of our work exposing corporate

front groups, lobbyists and PR manipulators. He should know, he was one of the

best PR executives in the health insurance business, _CIGNA's_

(http://salsa. democracyinactio n.org/dia/ track.jsp? v=2 & c=+mUCB6oHtN vxmIXh4g/

matwawfUxUHPy)

Vice President of Corporate Communications until he had a major change

of heart.

Today Wendell is CMD's Senior Fellow on Health Care, _testifying before

the US Senate Commerce Committee_

(http://salsa. democracyinactio n.org/dia/ track.jsp? v=2 & c=Hzv8zC8trS

E0Xkf4Q2SSFW2E21 6MFVF+) . His passion is health care

reform and his expertise is exposing how the powerful industry he once

helped run is manipulating and managing the crucial issue of health care debate

among policy makers, the public and in the media.

Read his _first public article_ (http://salsa. democracyinactio

n.org/dia/track. jsp?v=2 & c= L7+vTLXadfvuHDwQ U+5i3twawfUxUHPy ) explaining how

he changed

from a top insurance PR pro to an advocate for universal health care in the

United States:

" I'm the former insurance industry insider now speaking out 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 health care reform legislation members of Congress are now writing. "

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