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Democracy Now! – 7/16/09 – Wendell Potter, Congress on the Health Industry Payroll (part 1 of 2)

"They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors": Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies on Capitol Hill, we spend the hour with a former top insurance executive whos now exposing the industrys dirty secrets. Wendell Potter once served as the head of corporate communications at CIGNA, one of the nations largest health insurance companies. We speak to Potter about his own transformation from industry mouthpiece to whistleblower, the healthcare industrys extensive PR and lobbying machine, the campaign to discredit Michael Moores film Sicko, and the insurance industrys most pressing task: the fight against a public option, let alone a single-payer system.