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Author Archives: Wendell Potter

Posted inInside Public Integrity

Commentary: Is America a ‘Nation on the Take’?

by Wendell Potter March 9, 2016January 28, 2022

Author and columnist Wendell Potter Emma Schwartz America stands at a historic crossroads. One path leads to a renewal of our Democratic ideal, the other to government by the few, the rich and the powerful. So argue Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman in their new book, “Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts our […]

Posted inHealth

How to reduce the absurd amount of money Americans spend on health care? One community at a time

by Wendell Potter October 26, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Presidential candidates in fantasy land over health care

by Wendell Potter September 28, 2015January 28, 2022
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Insurers using lobbying muscle, campaign cash to push mergers

by Wendell Potter September 21, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Insurers say private Medicare plans are better, but we really don’t know

by Wendell Potter August 31, 2015January 28, 2022
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Merger of health insurers usually leads to big payday for executives

by Wendell Potter August 24, 2015January 28, 2022
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Health insurers working the system to pad their profits

by Wendell Potter August 17, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Candidates without a clue

by Wendell Potter August 10, 2015January 28, 2022
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Privatizing Medicare would create more problems than it solves

by Wendell Potter August 3, 2015January 28, 2022
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Latest swing of revolving door puts former Medicare czar in charge of health insurance lobby

by Wendell Potter July 20, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

GOP myth: Obamacare is driving insurance mergers

by Wendell Potter July 13, 2015January 28, 2022
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Coming health insurance mergers will cost consumers

by Wendell Potter July 6, 2015January 28, 2022
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Insurers’ arguments key to Supreme Court decision

by Wendell Potter June 25, 2015January 28, 2022
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Industry lobbies hard to snuff out tax on medical devices

by Wendell Potter June 22, 2015January 28, 2022
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For-profit hospitals mark up prices by more than 1,000 percent because there’s nothing to stop them

by Wendell Potter June 15, 2015January 28, 2022
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Free market ideology doesn’t work for health care

by Wendell Potter June 8, 2015January 28, 2022
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The best health care system in the world? Nonsense!

by Wendell Potter June 1, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Obamacare exchanges help, but confused consumers are still spending too much

by Wendell Potter May 25, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Insurers’ high-deductible plans leave many without needed care

by Wendell Potter May 18, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Court case shows how health insurers rip off you and your employer

by Wendell Potter May 11, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Health insurers ‘may go the way of Blockbuster’

by Wendell Potter May 4, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Former Rep. Allyson Schwartz’s new group, The Better Medicare Alliance, is not what it appears

by Wendell Potter April 27, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Insurers backed Obamacare, then undermined it. Now they’re profiting from it

by Wendell Potter April 20, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Energy firms, health insurers deftly use others to spread propaganda

by Wendell Potter April 13, 2015January 28, 2022
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Alabama OB-GYN whose patient died, pushed for ‘drive-through deliveries’

by Wendell Potter April 6, 2015January 28, 2022
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The enduring myth of cost shifting

by Wendell Potter March 30, 2015January 28, 2022
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Fed war on health care spending abuse needs to include Medicare Advantage

by Wendell Potter March 23, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inHealth

Consumers getting ‘skinned’ by health insurers

by Wendell Potter March 16, 2015January 28, 2022
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If Obamacare critics win high court case, effects will be wildly disparate

by Wendell Potter March 9, 2015January 28, 2022
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Obamacare opponents should be careful what they wish for

by Wendell Potter March 2, 2015January 28, 2022

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