Wendell Potter on where Occupy Wall Street might meet healthcare

By Tom Sullivan
09:14 AM

Not that the protestors are in need of complaints, but Wendell Potter writes that Occupy Wall Street should also take aim at health insurance companies, specifically AHIP, aka America’s Health Insurance Plans.

I’ll not steal his thunder because, agree or disagree, Potter’s post is worth reading. But a taste:

“I am now watching how AHIP is getting Obama administration officials to write the regulations required by the Affordable Care Act in ways that benefit insurance companies more than consumers,” Potter explains in Occupy Wall Street should protest the Wall Street takeover of healthcare at insurers' big lobbying group. “And I have talked to administration officials who have quit their jobs in disgust as the White House has repeatedly sided with insurers rather than consumer advocates, as important regulations were nearing completion.”

For anyone who doesn’t yet know who Wendell Potter is, the former Humana and Cigna public relations executive now writes for the Center for Media and Democracy and Huffington Post, among other sites. Time Magazine profiled him in 2009.
 

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