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Wendell Potter has been awarded the 2011 Ridenhour Book Prize for his work, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Healthcare and Deceiving Americans.

In 2007, Wendell was the head of Public Relations and Corporate Communications for CIGNA when the insurer denied a life-saving liver transplant to Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17 year old California girl who suffered from leukemia. Desperate to save their daughter's life, Nataline's parents organized protests and demonstrations against CIGNA. The company eventually yielded to public pressure and reversed its decision -- but too late. Nataline died just two hours after CIGNA approved the operation.

Nataline's case profoundly effected Wendell. He gradually felt that he had "sold his soul" by being "part of a industry that would do whatever it took to perpetuate its extraordinarily profitable existence." Wendell quit the insurance industry and started working tirelessly to make the public aware of the industry's widepsread unethical practices and PR techniques, and the harm these practices cause Americans.

Each year, the Ridenhour Prize honors an outstanding work of social significance from the previous publishing year. The Prize honors Wendell for having the courage to walk away from a lucrative, longstanding corporate career to speak out against the industry he worked in, and write an important expose' about an industry that values profits over human lives.

Wendell Potter on his decision to speak out:
One of the books I read as I was trying to make up my mind was President Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage." And in the forward, Robert Kennedy said that one of the president's favorite quotes was a Dante quote, "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, maintain a neutrality." And when I read that, I said, "Oh, jeez, I-- you know. I'm headed for that hottest place in hell, unless I say something."

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
 
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Bfgrn said:
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Wendell Potter has been awarded the 2011 Ridenhour Book Prize for his work, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Healthcare and Deceiving Americans.

In 2007, Wendell was the head of Public Relations and Corporate Communications for CIGNA when the insurer denied a life-saving liver transplant to Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17 year old California girl who suffered from leukemia. Desperate to save their daughter's life, Nataline's parents organized protests and demonstrations against CIGNA. The company eventually yielded to public pressure and reversed its decision -- but too late. Nataline died just two hours after CIGNA approved the operation.

Nataline's case profoundly effected Wendell. He gradually felt that he had "sold his soul" by being "part of a industry that would do whatever it took to perpetuate its extraordinarily profitable existence." Wendell quit the insurance industry and started working tirelessly to make the public aware of the industry's widepsread unethical practices and PR techniques, and the harm these practices cause Americans.

Each year, the Ridenhour Prize honors an outstanding work of social significance from the previous publishing year. The Prize honors Wendell for having the courage to walk away from a lucrative, longstanding corporate career to speak out against the industry he worked in, and write an important expose' about an industry that values profits over human lives.

Wendell Potter on his decision to speak out:
One of the books I read as I was trying to make up my mind was President Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage." And in the forward, Robert Kennedy said that one of the president's favorite quotes was a Dante quote, "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, maintain a neutrality." And when I read that, I said, "Oh, jeez, I-- you know. I'm headed for that hottest place in hell, unless I say something."
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And people have the nerve to talk about "death panels" when discussing government medical.

Here's an interview showing the results of free enterprise, capitalistic medical care.


For a quick glimpse check out 2:20 - 3:20 on the tape.
 
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Another capitalist pig turned book writer. No mention on what he did with the money made from book sales, did he give it away?
 
apple0154 said:
And people have the nerve to talk about "death panels" when discussing government medical.

Here's an interview showing the results of free enterprise, capitalistic medical care.


For a quick glimpse check out 2:20 - 3:20 on the tape.
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I have never been able to get any right winger to even WATCH that interview. It would be blasphemy.
 
Bfgrn said:
Let's just say I am skeptical. The freak has no ethics or morals, why would honesty be an obstacle? BTW, why don't you watch it?
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LMAO.... you are such a moron. Do demonstrate to us what makes you believe I have no ethics or morals. This should be quite comical.
 
Bfgrn said:
Let's just say I am skeptical. The freak has no ethics or morals, why would honesty be an obstacle? BTW, why don't you watch it?
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Quite honestly I barely have the attention span to watch anything for 37 minutes.
 
I'm betting that you can't even see the wrongness that is the insurance industry, still demanding that they be forced to put profit aside for the 'general welfare' of america. am I right?
 
SmarterThanYou said:
I'm betting that you can't even see the wrongness that is the insurance industry, still demanding that they be forced to put profit aside for the 'general welfare' of america. am I right?
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Interesting take. The interview with Wendell Potter is titled 'Profits before Patients'... Of course, in the morally bankrupt right wing Pharisee's mind, mammon always comes before people's very lives.

Luke 16:13-15

13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon (money).”

14 The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.

15 He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of man, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valuable in the eyes of man is detestable in God’s sight.
 
Saw a lady at the gas station leaving and skipping her vacation because gas is $3.5 gallon. I'm going to quite the oil industry.

NOT!!!
 
Topspin said:
insurance companies can't cover everything, BF can't understand anything.
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Really? So you support death panels.

Well, if they can't cover everything, then I'm sure the insurance company will understand if I can't cover the cost of my premium every month.
 
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