{"id":33191,"date":"2012-12-27T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33191"},"modified":"2012-12-19T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T21:42:38","slug":"deadly-spin-an-insurance-company-insider-speaks-out-re-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/27\/deadly-spin-an-insurance-company-insider-speaks-out-re-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out (Re-Broadcast)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-010511\/2011_01_05_potter.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/deadly_spin_potter.jpg\" alt=\"Deadly Spin\" \/>While the debate around President Obama&#8217;s Affordable Care Act presents the issue of healthcare reform as a battle between socialism and capitalism, in reality the legislation benefits for-profit insurance companies while putting in place some consumer protections. The Health insurance industry in fact helped craft the bill using a combination of slick PR moves outwardly supporting reform, and behind-the scenes front groups that viciously attacked real reform through a sophisticated disinformation campaign. We know that this is the two-prong strategy employed by insurance companies because one of their own top PR people quit in disgust and spilled the beans. His name is Wendell Potter and he worked as a top PR executive for Cigna for years before resigning and speaking out. Potter tells his story and how the Insurance industry works, in his new book Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Wendell Potter, Senior Fellow on Health Care at the Center for Media and Democracy, author of Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch the video of the entire interview with Wendell Potter here: <a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=17764\">http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=17764<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the debate around President Obama&#8217;s Affordable Care Act presents the issue of healthcare reform as a battle between socialism and capitalism, in reality the legislation benefits for-profit insurance companies while putting in place some consumer protections. The Health insurance industry in fact helped craft the bill using a combination of slick PR moves outwardly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33203,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions\/33203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}