Wendell Potter: 3 books
Deadly Spin
An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information...
Obamacare: What's in It for Me?
What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.
Enter...
Nation on the Take
How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
American democracy has become coin operated. Special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums of campaign cash has completely changed the character of politics and policy making, determining what elected representatives stand for and how their...