Dismantling the Corporate Spin on COBRA with Wendell Potter, Health Insurance Whistleblower

Wendell Potter is a whistleblower and reformed insurance propagandist.

For fifteen years, Wendell worked for Cigna, where he lead the company’s corporate communications team and served as chief corporate spokesperson. He also represented Cigna on several industry committees and task forces, including the strategic communications committee at the industry’s largest PR and lobbying group, America’s Health Insurance Plans.

After seeing firsthand how strategic PR and lobbying is used unfairly to tilt the scales toward corporate interests against the people’s interests, Wendell left his corporate career to advocate for meaningful health care reform. He made headlines in 2009 when he disclosed in Congressional testimony how insurance companies, as part of their efforts to boost profits, have contributed to spiraling health care costs and the growing number of Americans without health insurance. He also revealed how insurance companies use their customers’ premiums to wage multi-million dollar PR and lobbying campaigns to influence public opinion and public policy. Since then, he has spoken at more than 200 public forums and authored the award-winning book, Deadly Spin, An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans. His latest offering is an eBook entitled, Obamacare: What’s in for Me? What Everyone Needs to Know about the Affordable Care Act.

In 2017, Wendell launched Tarbell.org, a non-partisan news publication with the mission is to provide objective, investigative reporting on hard hitting topics effecting Americans. In 2019, Wendell became the president of Business for Medicare for All and Medicare for All NOW!

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💊Wendell's Twitter: @WendellPotter

💊Wendell's Website: WendellPotterConsulting.com

💊Wendell's Books: WendellPotterConsulting.com/Books

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