PR insider to testify re: healthcare propagandda

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Health Insurance PR Insider to Testify Before Senate

Media Advisory for June 24, 2009:

HEALTH INSURANCE INSIDER TO TESTIFY BEFORE SENATE

Contact: Page Metcalf, Center for Media and Democracy
Phone: (608) 260-9713
Email:

Former Executive Warns Congress: Don’t Be Fooled by For-Profit
Industry’s Misleading Campaign

Washington, DC – Wendell Potter, a former health insurance industry
insider, will testify before the full Senate Commerce Committee on
Wednesday June 24, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. EST, exposing the health
insurance industry’s resistance to needed health care reform.

Mr. Potter spent more than 20 years as a public relations executive
for two large health insurers – Cigna and Humana – but left the
industry after witnessing practices he felt harmed American health
care consumers. To him, there was a heart-breaking discrepancy
between Americans struggling to find affordable, comprehensive
coverage and wealthy insurance executives who based their premium
charges – and coverage decisions – on profits rather than people’s
health care needs. He has decided to come forward in the hopes of
stopping the health insurance industry from once again derailing
meaningful reform.

He will testify about how big, for-profit insurers have hijacked our
health care system and turned it into a giant ATM for Wall Street
investors and how the industry is using its massive wealth and
influence to determine what is (and is not) included in the
legislation currently before Congress.

WHO: Wendell Potter, Former Health Insurance Executive (Cigna and
Humana Inc.) and Senior Fellow on Health Care with the Center for
Media and Democracy, exposing the industry and telling Congress,
“Don’t buy the hype.”

WHAT: Hearing on “Consumer Choices and Transparency in the Health
Insurance Industry,”
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

WHEN: Wednesday June 24, 2009 Hearing Start Time: 2:30 pm Press
Pre-Set Time: 1:45 pm

WHERE: Room 253, Russell Senate Office Building
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John Stauber, Founder, Center for Media and Democracy

Originally posted: PR insider to testify re: healthcare propagandda

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