Wendell Potter and Deadly Spin

Start: Jan 21 2011 7:00 pm

Location:

Street:: Salt Lake City Main Library Auditorium
Additional:: 210 East 400 South
City:: Salt Lake City
Province:: Utah
Postal Code:: 84111
Country:: United States

"My name is Wendell Potter, and for twenty years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies. I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick--all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors." --Senate testimony, June 24, 2009

Wendell Potter, an insurance-company insider, speaks out on how corporate PR is killing health care and deceiving Americans. In Deadly Spin, Potter shows how a huge chunk of health-care spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits.

See the author in action on Democracy Now!:

"They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors"

Wendell Potter is the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy and a leading critic of the health insurance industry. After a twenty-year career in public relations, he left his position as senior PR executive for CIGNA to speak out against what he had seen there. He has appeared on countless television and radio programs and been quoted in newspapers and magazine’s across the country. Time magazine wrote that Potter “may be the ideal whistleblower.”

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