Wendell Potter
Wendell Potter left his position as head of communications for one of the nation’s largest health insurers after a crisis of conscience. He is a New York Times best-selling author and a former Washington correspondent for Scripps-Howard Newspapers. His book, co-authored with Nick Penniman, is Nation On the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It. Potter is founder and president of Tarbell.org, a digital news organization focused on investigative and solutions journalism, launching in spring 2017. Follow him on Twitter: @WendellPotter.
ALL POSTS BY Wendell Potter
August 9, 2017Even if single-payer health care gains traction, private insurers and health care providers will fight to preserve the profits of our current system.
March 23, 2017This plan gives health insurance companies a chance to profit even more than they did from the Affordable Care Act — and with fewer restrictions.
December 7, 2016Now that they'll control the White House and Congress, Republicans still haven't got a clue what to do about health care.
October 11, 2016It doesn't take a psychic to predict that health insurance carriers will return to the Obamacare fold in 2017 with dollar signs in their eyes.
August 29, 2016Retreating carriers whine that exchanges bruised their bottom lines; meanwhile, their profits are off the charts, thanks to... Obamacare.
March 18, 2016Here's how the pharmaceutical industry keeps America's drug prices among the highest in the world.
August 10, 2015GOP contenders hate Obamacare but don't have an alternative and know nothing about health insurance, writes health care activist Wendell Potter.
March 12, 2015If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in 'King v. Burwell,' nowhere will the effect be more stark than along the 400-mile border between two states, Tennessee and Kentucky.
February 12, 2015Republicans' Patient CARE Act would eliminate parts of the law that protect Americans from insurance companies.
November 14, 2014With Obama in the White House and the GOP in control of Congress, insurers are in the catbird seat.
