Former CIGNA Executive Hails 'SiCKO' on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!

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http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/16/former_insurance_exec_wendell_porter

As the debate over health care reform intensifies on Capitol Hill, we spend the hour with a former top insurance executive who's now exposing the industry's 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 health care industry's extensive PR and lobbying machine, the campaign to discredit Michael Moore's film Sicko, and the insurance industry's most pressing task: the fight against a public option, let alone a single-payer system.

Taking Wendell Potter in at http://www.michaelmoore.com/

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[bushofthecrazies33]

We need single payer PERIOD!

[OrmEmber]

Well, there it is, out in the open. A planned conspiracy to spread misinformation to scare Americans back into the arms of private insurance, just like they did when Clinton tried to get universal healthcare. And you know the worst part? Americans don't care. They are so scared of the words "government" and "healthcare" in the same sentence, that even though they Know the insurance cos. will deny them treatment, they will fight to keep them; kind of like fighting to protect your own killer.

[TonikHealthInsurance]

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[NocheezRecords]

I would say that is also a far left anarchist policy.  It's a good thing.

[NocheezRecords]

True again and definitely highly annoying.  Really shows the failure of the school system.

[NocheezRecords]

Very true Garret.

[NocheezRecords]

Amy Goodman is a commie? LOL. Doubt it. It would seem she is more of a social libertarian or anarchist. Hard to say since I never asked here exactly what she is.

How is Amy Goodman a hypocrite? By giving people real access to news and information instead of being a joke like FOX?

[themeaningoflife38]

also check out "Operation Mockinbird" the media has been controlled by the CIA since the 1940s

[Peglash]

well said

[Peglash]

Grow up! Name calling is out of fashion no matter how old you are.

Second, a communist is a representative of communism so one implies the other.

Third, an easy way of knowing if they are commies, and they are not, is to read the definition of communism : Wiki it! Both of them want universal health care like every other highly industrialized country but they want CLEAN, LEGAL and BALANCED economic competition. Thats a right-center policy.

[Peglash]

you don't seem to even know what communism is

[Garret00074]

Not really...It's complicated. Follow the money...

Mostly it's right wing groups that want Obama and the Democrats to fail. Then, there has always been the right wing nightmare that if you get universal healthcare it will be an entitlement, and entitlements take away tax dollars for corporations and business.

One of the reasons the Bush administration ran up the defit was to starve the federal government of money so it can't do things like health care.