Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out On How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care And Deceiving Americans (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
My sister asked me if I've ever given a book 5 stars...and (with exception for the classics) I hadn't. Wendell Potter is a fascinating man. He's the undercover journalist's wet dream, having spent 20+ years in the insurance organization as a "spin man" promoting the profit interests of companies like CIGNA and HUMANA, who in a fit of morality left the industry but not before pulling back the curtain. EVERYONE should read this book. Those who support Obamacare and those who don't. At some point you have been the victim of these organizations, directly or indirectly. This book does more than give you an insider's perspective on what the health insurance industry is doing to destroy the public health option. It gives a historical perspective of why health costs have increased astronomically and how all the players share responsibility. Our government representatives are not educated well enough in the spin industry and the ability for these companies to use our premium dollars to sell us short is disgusting. I think we are all aware how PR firms manipulate information to a particular group's advantage. I don't think most of us can imagine the lengths to which many of America's Corporations will go and the amount of money they are willing to spend (millions!!) to enrich themselves and their investors. This book recounts those details, no only for the health insurance industry,but the tobacco corporations, and soda companies to name a few. The one disturbing fact that he brings to light is the demise of news reporting, that previously would have uncovered these "deals"."If there is one message-and one that is actually true-it is this: Always look behind any public argument to see how your emotions are being manipulated" (WP)That won't be so easy any more as spin begets spin.......At any rate, if you have been anti Obamacare, read this first. You will see how you were manipulated.
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In on sitting, I read a third of this gripping book. This is a MUST READ.
—mom
