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

[Guest guest]

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.LiveStream &

Hearing_id=6f02dcc8-ad5b-445c-81ca-36c9b06ebdd5_

(http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.LiveStream & Hear\

ing_id=6f02dcc8-ad5b-44

5c-81ca-36c9b06ebdd5)

_http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_files/PotterTestimonyConsumerHealthInsur

ance.pdf_

(http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_files/PotterTestimonyConsumerHealthInsurance\

..pdf)

Wendell Potter Exposes Health Insurance Politics and PR

_Wendell Potter_

(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=6UQYas8SBCTiTUlIdg6qd9wa\

wfUxUHPy) came to the _Center for Media and

Democracy_

(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=5WTTyX1g8LglxWP0WDVLVNwa\

wfUxUHPy) 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.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=+mUCB6oHtNvxmIXh4g/matwa\

wfUxUHPy)

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.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2 & c=Hzv8zC8trSE0Xkf4Q2SSFW2E\

216MFVF+) . 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+vTLXadfvuHDwQU+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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