The current debate about the individual mandate reminded me to post this -
About a year ago, I had the opportunity to hear Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin - an insider’s sharp critique of the insurance industry, speak at a meeting of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. Despite the cold, dark winter night and midtown dreariness of the meeting location, the large lecture room was packed. I arrived well before Potter’s presentation but couldn’t get a copy of his book; they’d sold out.
The meeting was instructive: I got a sense of Potter’s personal story (he’s from Tennessee, and lived for a while in Appalachia), his previous career (he worked as a journalist, turned to marketing, eventually led PR for Cigna) and his perspective on how people in the health care industry use language to frame the debate on health care reform. Since 2009, when he left his position at Cigna, he writes and
See more Notes on Wendell Potter, and Why Companies Support the Individual Mandate
