Health Insurance Companies Care About Profits - Not Patients

Wendell Potter, former health insurance executive, tells us why health insurance is getting worse and costing more. You need to read this! He writes:

I left my job as a health insurance executive at Cigna after a crisis of conscience. It began in 2005, during a meeting convened by the chief executive to brief department heads on the company’s latest strategy: “consumerism.”

Marketing consultants created the term to persuade employers and policymakers to shift hundreds, and in many ...