Sick for Profit

End Wall Street Run Health Care

Until a year ago, Wendell Potter was an executive at Cigna, the 3rd largest health insurance company. He risked his reputation by blowing the whistle on his industry and sharing the insider secrets used by insurance companies to deny care and spread fear based propaganda about the "horrors of government run health care" for the last 20 years. In a recent interview on PBS, he shares the detailed playbook of the political movement to block health care reform and preserve the insurance company's stranglehold on the lucrative American health care industry.

"The industry and its backers are using fear tactics, as they did in 1994, to tar a transparent and accountable, publicly accountable health care option as, quote, "government-run health care." What we have today, Mr. Chairman, is Wall Street-run health care 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." - Wendell Potter

Everyone intersted in the public debate about health care should watch the whole interview online.

Silence on the Blogging Front...

Lately, I've been too preoccupied to blog and I'm not sure that will change anytime soon. After many years attempting to adopt a child, my wife and I finally have our little girl at home. I was beginning to doubt our decision to adopt instead of having children naturally, but the wait is finally over. Even though the paper work isn't finalized, we are enjoying our new challenge. Her name is Katie. She's an adorable 8 month old. She's had a rough start to life, but we are doing everything we can to turn that around.