Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

So frustrated that we are seemingly powerless to solve the major issues in our health care system, as comprehensively outlined in this podcast. Worth taking a listen.

#WendellPotter #JordanHarbinger #healthcare #podcast
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/wendell-potter-killing-health-care-and-deceiving-americans/

Wendell Potter has a piece in the NY Times eviscerating the US health insurance industry.

'At a county fairground in Wise, Va., I witnessed people standing in lines that stretched out of view, waiting to see physicians who were stationed in animal stalls.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/opinion/health-insurance-united-ceo-shooting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU4.hq4l.cBSZql0tnKPL&smid=url-share

#nytimes #uspol #wendellpotter

Speaking of #HealthInsurance, here's an industry insider on what's wrong with the system.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/podcasts/us-healthcare-strangled-by-massive-insurance-profits-and-money-in-politics

#HealthCare #MedicalInsurance #WendellPotter

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TITLE: Wendell Potter, HEALTH CARE Uncovered: " AFTER MISSING MID YEAR
FINANCIAL EXPECTATIONS, WAYS BIG INSURERS GET BACK IN GOOD GRACES WITH
WALL STREET"

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NOTES / COMMENTS RE., “After Missing Mid-Year Financial Expectations…………."

     1).  In this chilling article, Wendell Potter gives us a sobering
preview of coming troubles (for patients and all professionals) stemming
from the fact that Wall Street is basically in charge of government.
Wall Street privatization of health insurance/other social welfare
programs is grounded in the philosophy espoused by University of Chicago
economist, the late Milton Friedman. Friedman said,“the corporations
should not take into account the public interest” and added that “the
government itself should not take into account the public interest. The
job of the government is to simply let everybody make as much money as
they can, however they can”.

     2). The GOP legislature’s plan in many states is to privatize all
state-run social services, from schools to prisons to Medicaid. They
seek to gain political advantage by upending the system, and will do
anything they can to undercut unions, public social welfare entities,
mental health/public health, school teachers, public schools and state
employees for a political return from their corporate benefactors. GOP
and some democrat governors defund state social services, health/mental
health services , contract with profiteering private corporations and
cap it all off by slashing taxes on the rich.

     3).  Legislators/Policymakers, regulators, employers, and the
media have avoided regulating or changing the taxpayer-reliant business
practices of their large insurance company donors, which wield
substantial lobbying power that they deploy against any effort to
transform the United States’ fragmented healthcare system. “They’ve
essentially been bailed out by taxpayers,” health policy expert Wendall
Potter said of for-profit insurance giants. “And members of Congress,
and various administrations, have remained on the sidelines, avoiding
paying attention to what their wealthy campaign donors have been doing.”
Meanwhile, The Commonwealth Fund found that the United States spent
close to twice as much as the average OECD nation on healthcare while
achieving worse outcomes in critical areas such as life expectancy at
birth and death rates for treatable conditions.

                         Regards, Doug Stephenson, LCSW, BCD,
Gainesville, Florida
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LINK:

After missing mid-year financial expectations, here are the ways big
health insurers are going to get back into Wall Street's good graces
https://wendellpotter.substack.com/p/after-missing-mid-year-financial
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9-25-23 Nicole’s Moving Shows #6 – Wendell Potter on (Not) Medicare DISAdvantage

https://nicolesandler.com/9-25-23/
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#joerogan should have #wendellpotter #whistleblower former insurance company insider on his show.

http://wendellpotter.com/about/