By Wendell Potter
ISBN-10: 1608192814
ISBN-13: 9781608192816
Wendell Potter is the assurance industry's worst nightmare.In June 2009, Wendell Potter made nationwide headlines along with his sizzling testimony sooner than the Senate panel on healthiness care reform. This former senior vice president of CIGNA defined how healthiness insurers make provides they've got no purpose of conserving, how they flout laws designed to guard shoppers, and the way they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar PR campaigns designed to unfold disinformation.Potter had walked clear of a six-figure wage and 20 years as an coverage government simply because he may perhaps now not abide the regimen practices of an the place the desires of ill and affliction americans take a backseat to the base line. The final straw: while he visited a rural wellbeing and fitness sanatorium and observed countless numbers of individuals status in line within the rain to obtain therapy in stalls outfitted for livestock.In Deadly Spin, Potter takes readers backstage to teach how an incredible bite of our absurd healthcare spending really bankrolls a propaganda crusade and lobbying attempt fascinated about retaining something: earnings. regardless of the destiny of the present well-being care laws, it makes no try and swap that basic challenge.
Potter exhibits how relentless PR attacks play an insidious function in our political approach at any place that company gains are at stake—from weather swap to safeguard coverage. Deadly Spin tells us why—and how—we needs to struggle back.
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