#Nfib

Mar 13, 2012
4 min

How We All Got Stuck Paying the Medical Bills of the Woman Who Sued to Kill Obamacare

Wendell Potter: Analyst at MSNBC and the Center for Public Integrity Posted: 03/12/2012 7:26 am If I were trying to persuade the Supreme Court later this month that Obamacare should not be declared unconstitutional, I would tell the story of the woman who was the original named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the fiercest critics of the health care reform law. The NFIB thought it had found the perfect person when one

Recycling a Front Group to Cheat Us Out of Benefits

Jay Murdock

Nov 11, 2011
4 min

Recycling a Front Group to Cheat Us Out of Benefits

Wendell Potter – Analyst, Center for Public Integrity; Former insurance company executive; Author The special interests seeking to gut those portions of the health reform law that would be of greatest benefit to consumers clearly believe there is no such thing as historical memory in Washington. Why else would they bring one of their old front groups out of the storage locker, with just a single new word added to its name? A front group designed to persuade Americans that w

Pay Much Attention to the Insurers Behind Paul Ryan’s Curtain

Jay Murdock

Apr 8, 2011
5 min

Pay Much Attention to the Insurers Behind Paul Ryan’s Curtain

Wendell Potter – Former insurance company executive; author Posted: 04/ 7/11 09:10 AM ET Democrats who think Paul Ryan and his Republican colleagues have foolishly wrapped their arms around the third rail of American politics by proposing to hand the Medicare program to private insurers will themselves look foolish if they take for granted that the public will always be on their side. Rep. Ryan’s budget proposal would radically reshape both the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

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