Wellness For The Real World: Is Your Health Care Insurance Company Deceiving You?

Author of Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans, Wendell Potter left senior management at CIGNA after he was instructed to “spin” the death of a 17 year old resulting from CIGNA’s refusal to cover a critically-needed liver transplant. Potter tells us how his mission as Director of Public Relations was to contribute to the strength of the health insurance industry in denying expensive treatments, and to defend CIGNA’s profits to the media. Learn what goes on inside of insurance companies and how the Healthcare Reform Act has given them even more power than before.

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“You want to read this book”, says Dr. Veronica. “The most interesting chapter in this book is called The Playbook. And The Playbook talks about how corporate America use public relations firms to snooker Americans, so that we don’t know whats going on; they do it all behind the scenes… All of the arguments that are important in America, and especially to our health and wellness are being driven by public relations firms and people like Wendell Potter was involved in this. BUT, guess what? Courageous men; he quit and now he is on the side of the American people!”