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Wendell Potter

Wendell Potter is the former vice president for corporate communications at Cigna. He is now president of Business for Medicare for All and author of bestselling books “Deadly Spin” and “Nation on the Take.”

Elizabeth Warren (AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter/Susan Walsh/Salon)

How health insurance industry allies are going to lie and attack Warren’s Medicare for All plan

Wendell Potter

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Why the private health insurance industry faces an existential crisis

Wendell Potter

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What’s next for Obamacare? An urgent prognosis

Wendell Potter

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The AHCA may be dead, but big insurance adored it — and they like Obamacare, too

Wendell Potter

Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump (AP/Steve Helber/Reuters/Chris Keane/Photo montage by Salon)

The system is just this rigged: Dark money, Citizens United and the secret story of how big money stole our democracy

Wendell Potter, Nick Penniman

WellPoint’s heart-stopping rate increase

Wendell Potter

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. left, makes a point on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23,2009, and the committee continued working on health care legislation. The committee's ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa is at right.

Dear Sen. Baucus: Don’t sell out Americans

Wendell Potter

Former CIGNA Vice President Wendell Potter, left, who has become a whistleblower regarding the health care industry, accompanied by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009.

How corporate P.R. works to kill healthcare reform

Wendell Potter