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Health Care Plotter Gets A Conscience About What He Did
For 20 years, Wendell Potter, a top executive large insurance companies, did everything he could to scare Americans about health care. Then, he says he saw the film "Sicko" to get propaganda, but seeing it changed him.
His conscience ruled. He testified to Congress about the tricks health care companies play to block health care reform.
A month later at a county fair, Mr. Potter saw patients in long lines waiting for free health care in stalls used for animals.
He quit his job and went public with insurance industry tactics to obstruct any chance of fixing U.S.health care.
Nicholas Kristof writes:
His conscience ruled. He testified to Congress about the tricks health care companies play to block health care reform.
A month later at a county fair, Mr. Potter saw patients in long lines waiting for free health care in stalls used for animals.
He quit his job and went public with insurance industry tactics to obstruct any chance of fixing U.S.health care.
Nicholas Kristof writes:
What’s un-American isn’t a greater government role
in health care but an existing system in which Americans
without insurance get health care, if at all, in livestock pens.
(Kristof column here) (Interesting comments here).
Carole
in health care but an existing system in which Americans
without insurance get health care, if at all, in livestock pens.
(Kristof column here) (Interesting comments here).
Carole
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