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Profits Before Patients

by: Bill Moyers Journal, t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

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Health care industry whistle-blower Wendell Potter. (Photo: PRWatch.org)

    PBS Airtime: Friday July 10, 2009, at 9:00 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings here).

    With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform. Potter spoke out against the industry for the first time last month. Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, he said, "Recently it became abundantly clear to me that the industry's charm offensive, which is the most visible part of a duplicitous and well-financed PR and lobbying campaign, may well shape reform in a way that benefits Wall Street far more than average Americans." Wendell Potter is a senior fellow on health care for the nonpartisan watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy, for which he writes a blog on health care reform.

  

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In 2009 I think it is quite

In 2009 I think it is quite apparent that We the People, as the collective-- America.., have mortal enemies in the World. I also think that what is becoming apparent, is that Gigantic, often GLOBAL Corporations are trying to steal our Nation away from us in the name of some illusion of a Right and a perceived Freedom to seek dominion over us and to take 'profit' from each and every one of us in any way, shape and form they can manage to reshape and recast American Government, Our Laws and Regulations, and through the use of Media which they own and control in Monopoly form to Manipulate Perceptions of Reality... Corporate Power runs amok and has caused our Nation and Way of Life greater harm than any other real or perceived threat to our Nation in all my 57 year life span and they continue to do so unabated... AND THAT'S A FACT JACK..!!!

This is true and amazingly

This is true and amazingly well put.