Friday, June 26, 2009

Read This if You've Been Screwed by Your Health Insurance Provider

Some are lucky to be healthy and rarely need to visit even a primary care physician, let alone a team of specialists. Or if not that, they have great health insurance with low deductibles and access to a huge network of doctors (such as our elected Congressional body, who is now crafting health care reform).

The remaining 99.99% of us can rejoice in witnessing Wendell Potter's testimony before Congress.

Here's how he started out on June 24, 2009:
My name is Wendell Potter and for 20 years, I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies, and I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick – all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.
Hopefully this will throw a monkey wrench into any ideas about making health insurance mandatory. Or setting as the lone goal of health care reform that every adult and child have health insurance. All this does is help the health insurance industry by enslaving its customer base.

To learn more about Wendell Potter, you can visit his website here.
2023-11-19 Updated link to Senate testimony and link to Wendell Potter's website.

2 comments:

Lynne said...

I meant to comment on this post last week when I read it...but, my internet dropped in the middle of my comment and then the thought to return dropped from my brain ;)
Thanks for posting this. I went and read the guys full post and will be returning to his blog often. It is good to know that there are folks out there that have been in the insurance biz speaking out against their evil practices!!!!
Thanks for the info~ I really appreciated it!

Square Peg Guy said...

Hi Lynne:

Thanks for commenting. I was thinking of you when I wrote it!