Last month, testimony in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation by a former health insurance insider named Wendell Potter made news even before it occurred: CBS NEWS headlined: “Cigna Whistleblower to Testify”. After Potter’s testimony the industry scrambled to do damage control: “Insurers defend rescissions, take heat for lack of transparency”.
“I didn’t intend to [speak out], until it became really clear to me that the industry is resorting to the same tactics they’ve used over the years, and particularly back in the early ’90s, when they were leading the effort to kill the Clinton plan.”
In his first television interview since leaving the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter tells Bill Moyers why he left his successful career as the Head of Public Relations for CIGNA, one of the nation’s largest insurers, and decided to speak out against the industry.
