1. Wendell Potter was born on July 16,1951 and is an American advocate for health insurance payment reform, New York Times bestselling author, and former health insurance industry communications director.
16 Facts About Wendell Potter
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Wendell Potter has been called the "Daniel Ellsberg of corporate America" by Michael Moore and "a straight shooter" by Bill Moyers.
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Wendell Potter is the first and only "health insurance insider" to have publicly criticized the industry's stance on the Obama health care reforms.
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Wendell Potter has served as senior analyst at the Center for Public Integrity, a fellow at the Center for Media and Democracy, and a consumer liaison representative to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
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Wendell Potter is a regular guest on MSNBC and other national programming.
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Wendell Potter was born on July 16,1951, to Blaine and Pearl Potter.
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Wendell Potter was the first in his family to complete college, graduating from the University of Tennessee, where he edited the student newspaper Daily Beacon in 1973 and was named a Torchbearer.
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Wendell Potter was employed by Humana in Kentucky before he moved to Connecticut to work for CIGNA in 1993.
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Wendell Potter began his journey towards resigning and becoming a consumer advocate in July 2007 when he saw a free clinic run by Remote Area Medical in rural Virginia:.
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Wendell Potter took pictures of patients lying on trolleys on rain-soaked pavements.
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Wendell Potter retired from CIGNA in 2008 shortly after the death of Nataline Sarkisyan and became an active voice on healthcare reform in 2009.
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On September 15,2009, Wendell Potter appeared before the US House of Representatives Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
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In 2016, Wendell Potter published Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy And What We Can Do About It, with co-author Nick Penniman.
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In 2017, Wendell Potter founded his eponymous nonprofit journalism company, to investigate how powerful people and companies use their influence to shape public opinion and public policy.
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In December 2018, Wendell Potter was named president of Business Initiative for Health Policy, a business group that supports universal healthcare.
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Wendell Potter shifted his past informed insider's favorable opinion of MA plans after his more recent experience with his mother's healthcare.