Bristol Forum featuring Wendell Potter
Posted by Beth Uselton on October 19, 2010
Born and raised in Mountain City and Kingsport, Wendell Potter is
a Senior Fellow on Health Care at the Center for Media and Democracy.
After a 20‐year career as a corporate public relations director, a
visit to a Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, VA changed his life. Seeing
hundreds of his former neighbors waiting overnight for desperately
needed medical care, he decided to leave his comfortable and powerful
position as head of communications for CIGNA, one of the nation’s
largest health insurers, to speak out about strategies health insurance
companies use to drop coverage and deny care in order to boost their
profits. A well‐respected journalist and author of the book “Deadly Spin”
(Nov. 2010), he has become a leading critic of the health insurance
industry, testifying before Congress and speaking out against the spin
created by insurance companies to block health care reform.
