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Wendell Potter

Freelance Analyst  The Center for Public Integrity

Following a 20-year career as a corporate public relations executive, Potter left his position as head of communications for CIGNA, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, to show the world the dark inner workings of the insurance industry. He has testified before Senate and House committees, briefed several members of Congress and their staffs, appeared with lawmakers at several press conferences, spoken at more than 100 public forums, and has been the subject of numerous articles in the U.S. and foreign media. His new book is called Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans.

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ANALYSIS: Employer-based health care has been crumbling for several years

ANALYSIS: Health insurance companies buying back billions of dollars of their own stock

ANALYSIS: Don't take Blue Shield's $180 million refund offer at face value

ANALYSIS: Small business owners among most enthusiastic about single-payer plan

ANALYSIS: Insurers fight rules to limit admin costs while spending lavishly on junkets for salesmen

ANALYSIS: Insurers crying foul over new rules for premium hikes

Health insurance industry follows E.B. White's advice to be clearly obscure

Health insurance firms 'purging' small businesses coverage to jack up profits

The president's mother and his struggle for health care reform

While some states are suing to halt health care reform, Vermont is moving forward with a single-payer plan

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