Democracy Now!: Insurance Insider Speaks (PR and Michael Moore)

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Wendell Potter on "Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans"

(…Wendell Potter joins us for an extended interview about his new book, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans.)


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WENDELL POTTER: ... but the big objective here is to make people—make the whole concept of single payer unpleasant, or at least to demean the idea of it, to call it "socialized medicine" or "government-controlled healthcare...


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AMY GOODMAN:OK. Let’s go to Sicko. Let’s go to the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore’s film, Sicko.

WENDELL POTTER: The message on Sicko was that this was Michael Moore’s vision for America, was to lead us into socialized medicine. We went back to those points again. We wanted to make sure that people were afraid of any other kind of system that would have more government regulation and in which people had universal care.

AMY GOODMAN: The strategy………….

WENDELL POTTER: To make sure that people were—saw him as a Marxist, as a socialist, and that he was going to be destroying the American Dream.

AMY GOODMAN: Wendell Potter, are you for socialized medicine now?

WENDELL POTTER: I think that we need to have a system in which everyone is covered. If you call that socialism, so be it.


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