Reflections on the House health bill
March 22, 2010
Below is the response from Physicians for a National Health Program on yesterday’s House vote. But first, my comments:
Yesterday, the House of Representatives took a huge step in embracing the principle of health care reform. Much of the language used resembles the rhetoric that would sound like single payer (“universal coverage”, “health care is a right”, “no longer would people be denied coverage”, etc.). Unfortunately, the promise is better than the reality and the plan fundamentally relies on the for-profit, private insurance industry to rely on providing this coverage.
Given their track record and their demand for shareholder profits, we should be very cautious.
If you want an idea of how much this will cost and whether you will get a subsidy to fund health care, go to the Kaiser Family Foundation subsidy calculator to get an idea of how much insurance will cost you. (Look up the reconciliation bill version which is what passed last night). You may be surprised at the cost.
Frankly, we will still have the most expensive health care system in the world, by far, (http://blogs.ngm.com/.a/6a00e0098226918833012876a6070f970c-800wi) because we are unwilling to face the reality that the feared “government takeover” of health care is the bitter medicine that we need to control costs. We would like to believe that a competitive private insurance industry can lower costs, but we have 50 years of evidence that this belief is misguided. Within that framework, we have asked the insurance industry to stop excluding people with preexisting conditions, no more recissions, no lifetime caps, no medical underwriting, etc. This is good, but insurers are unlikely to do all this without raising premiums or cutting benefits and AHIP’s statement essentially assures they will do just that.
We should note that America’s Health Insurance Plans have released a one sentence statement about the reform plan which basically assures us that there will be increases in premiums:
AHIP Statement on Health Care Reform Legislation
We will never control costs and preserve access without taking a step toward single payer health care, perhaps by expanding Medicare. This was not our step yesterday. But in the global economy, we have to start moving this way or employers will find themselves stuck with unaffordable insurance premiums. I am willing to support candidates who clearly understand this and are willing to support single payer, while still getting people health insurance using our flawed private insurance model right now. But eventually, we will have to make the really tough decision which we avoided with this legislation.
So today, I rejoice that we made a step toward the idea that we need to fix our health care system, but we have not made the tough choice to move us toward single payer that we have to make to control health care costs and that will position our country to be competitive in a global economy. For those who don’t want to wait until 2014 to see insurance expansion, we have a chance to prove the benefits of single payer in Pennsylvania with the passage of SB 400/HB 1660, the Family and Business Health Security Act. Walter
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Physicians for a National Health Program
News release
March 22, 2010
A False Promise of Reform
The following statement was released today by leaders of Physicians for a National Health Program, www.pnhp.org. Their signatures appear below.
As much as we would like to join the celebration of the House’s passage of the health bill last night, in good conscience we cannot. We take no comfort in seeing aspirin dispensed for the treatment of cancer.
Instead of eliminating the root of the problem – the profit-driven, private health insurance industry – this costly new legislation will enrich and further entrench these firms. The bill would require millions of Americans to buy private insurers’ defective products, and turn over to them vast amounts of public money.
The hype surrounding the new health bill is belied by the facts:
* About 23 million people will remain uninsured nine years out. That figure translates into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths annually and an incalculable toll of suffering.
* Millions of middle-income people will be pressured to buy commercial health insurance policies costing up to 9.5 percent of their income but covering an average of only 70 percent of their medical expenses, potentially leaving them vulnerable to financial ruin if they become seriously ill. Many will find such policies too expensive to afford or, if they do buy them, too expensive to use because of the high co-pays and deductibles.
* Insurance firms will be handed at least $447 billion in taxpayer money to subsidize the purchase of their shoddy products. This money will enhance their financial and political power, and with it their ability to block future reform.
* The bill will drain about $40 billion from Medicare payments to safety-net hospitals, threatening the care of the tens of millions who will remain uninsured.
* People with employer-based coverage will be locked into their plan’s limited network of providers, face ever-rising costs and erosion of their health benefits. Many, even most, will eventually face steep taxes on their benefits as the cost of insurance grows.
* Health care costs will continue to skyrocket, as the experience with the Massachusetts plan (after which this bill is patterned) amply demonstrates.
* The much-vaunted insurance regulations – e.g. ending denials on the basis of pre-existing conditions – are riddled with loopholes, thanks to the central role that insurers played in crafting the legislation. Older people can be charged up to three times more than their younger counterparts, and large companies with a predominantly female workforce can be charged higher gender-based rates at least until 2017.
* Women’s reproductive rights will be further eroded, thanks to the burdensome segregation of insurance funds for abortion and for all other medical services.
It didn’t have to be like this. Whatever salutary measures are contained in this bill, e.g. additional funding for community health centers, could have been enacted on a stand-alone basis.
Similarly, the expansion of Medicaid – a woefully underfunded program that provides substandard care for the poor – could have been done separately, along with an increase in federal appropriations to upgrade its quality.
But instead the Congress and the Obama administration have saddled Americans with an expensive package of onerous individual mandates, new taxes on workers’ health plans, countless sweetheart deals with the insurers and Big Pharma, and a perpetuation of the fragmented, dysfunctional, and unsustainable system that is taking such a heavy toll on our health and economy today.
This bill’s passage reflects political considerations, not sound health policy. As physicians, we cannot accept this inversion of priorities. We seek evidence-based remedies that will truly help our patients, not placebos.
A genuine remedy is in plain sight. Sooner rather than later, our nation will have to adopt a single-payer national health insurance program, an improved Medicare for all. Only a single-payer plan can assure truly universal, comprehensive and affordable care to all.
By replacing the private insurers with a streamlined system of public financing, our nation could save $400 billion annually in unnecessary, wasteful administrative costs. That’s enough to cover all the uninsured and to upgrade everyone else’s coverage without having to increase overall U.S. health spending by one penny.
Moreover, only a single-payer system offers effective tools for cost control like bulk purchasing, negotiated fees, global hospital budgeting and capital planning.
Polls show nearly two-thirds of the public supports such an approach, and a recent survey shows 59 percent of U.S. physicians support government action to establish national health insurance. All that is required to achieve it is the political will.
The major provisions of the present bill do not go into effect until 2014. Although we will be counseled to “wait and see” how this reform plays out, we cannot wait, nor can our patients. The stakes are too high.
We pledge to continue our work for the only equitable, financially responsible and humane remedy for our health care mess: single-payer national health insurance, an expanded and improved Medicare for All.
Oliver Fein, M.D.
President
Garrett Adams, M.D.
President-elect
Claudia Fegan, M.D.
Past President
Margaret Flowers, M.D.
Congressional Fellow
David Himmelstein, M.D.
Co-founder
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.
Co-founder
Quentin Young, M.D.
National Coordinator
Don McCanne, M.D.
Senior Health Policy Fellow
Meeting on March 9 only
March 9, 2010
The March 9 general meeting from 7-9 PM for Health Care for All Philadelphia will change to the Edmund Bossone Research Center, 3141 Market St, Drexel University in the student lounge area as you walk in the door on Market Street, turn left. The front door is actually across Market Street from the Soverign Bank parking lot.
Before the meeting, come join us to watch Money Driven Medicine based on a book by Maggie Mahar, who will BE there herself to answer questions in Mitchell Auditorium from 5-7 PM.
Reflections on Arcadia
March 9, 2010
I was lucky and got tickets in the VIP section in front of the audience literally 10 feet from Obama at Arcadia University. It was a pretty awe inspiring speech with a very supportive and enthusiastic crowd. A few dissenting shouts could be heard and one moment he looked up and people reacted by saying “let the President finish”.The President was introduced by a single woman faced with a doubling of her insurance premiums and saying that something had to be done. The audience had been standing waiting for 3 hours to hear Obama and when he came in, it was a thunderous reception. He began by saying it was good to get out of Washington.
His loudest ovations came when he said that insurance abuses had to end like exclusions for preexisting conditions, that people should be able to buy the same plan as members of Congress and that Republicans had 10 years to do something about health care costs and did nothing and now they are critics of his plan. “If not now, when? If not us, who?”.
His message was that Congress needed to pass the bill and that Washington spent more time worrying about the elections and not enough time about the concerns of the people.
At one point he said that, “some people want a government takeoever of health care” to which there was a loud applause including a few of us who shouted, “single payer”. He seemed to ignore it, but it was notable and unlikely to be reported by the media.
His final comment was that he wanted us to get Congress to pass his health care bill. Nothing new that hasn’t been said.
Philadelphia saves under single payer
February 6, 2010
What’s up today?
CITY OF PHILADELPHIA COULD SAVE $381,011,939 PER YEAR ON EMPLOYEE HEALTH CARE COSTS UNDER LEGISLATION NOW PENDING IN HARRISBURG
Philadelphia City Councilman Bill Greenlee (At-Large) will accept a symbolic check made out to Pennsylvania taxpayers by leaders of the healthcare reform group “Healthcare4allPA” at a press conference scheduled for Thursday, February 4, at 9:00 am at City Council’s Caucus Room, Room 401, City Hall, Philadelphia.
According to surveys conducted by the statewide health advocacy group, under provisions of the bills, HR1660 and SB400, Philadelphia could reduce its current spending on health benefits to its workers by more than $381 millions per year.
The bills provide for a flat 10% payroll tax and a 3% individual income tax to cover all health related expenses, including prescriptions, dental, vision, and other – without charging additional costs to consumers.
“We are working to totally revamp the current way of paying for healthcare in Pennsylvania with our initiative,” said Healthecare4allPA chair Cindy Purvis. “One of the surest winners of our proposal will be municipal and local governments and school districts, which will see their health care expenditures shrink. In the end, taxpayers will be double winners: more resources for other vital programs and access to quality affordable healthcare everywhere in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” she added.
Councilman Greenlee was the main author of a resolution supporting the Pennsylvania bills last year. Since Philadelphia, the cities of Pittsburgh, Lancaster and Wilkes-Barre have adopted similar resolutions in support. of the bills, also known as the Family and Business Health Care Security Act.
For more information, and to read the text of the bills, as well as other pertinent information, go towww.healthcare4allpa.org.
Philly 13 arrest and Insurance skit
January 14, 2010
Our video showing the arrests of the Philly 13 who demanded single payer and a little skit on insurance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKZlAYPw3jU
Observations on Senate Banking and Insurance Committee hearing on PA single payer plan
December 18, 2009
Observations of Dr. Walter Tsou, former Philadelphia Health Commissioner, and Chuck Pennacchio, Executive Director of Healthcare for All Pennsylvania, on yesterday’s (12.16.09) Pennsylvania Senate Banking and Insurance Committee hearing on SB 400.
Chuck Pennacchio:
In addition to Walter’s more detailed observations and insights below, I’d like to make a few key points intended to translate events and chart a path forward for passage of SB 400/HB 1660 at the earliest possible moment.
First, it was obvious that our SB 400 testifiers — including Senator Jim Ferlo’s tone-setting statement at the top — were far better prepared, passionate, and on-point than our opponents. But no need to take our word for it. The glowing wrap-up comments of Chairman White, his decision to extend the hearing time an additional 50 minutes, his desire to continue the hearings and research and bill-writing process, as well as his personal congratulatory handshake while saying, “your panel did a terrific job,” give us real hope that we are within shouting distance of accomplishing what all of us need — a healthcare system that, in moral and economic terms, puts patient care and dignity first and foremost.
I was also pleased with the preparedness, comments, and questions of Senator Jake Corman, part of the GOP leadership team, Chair of Senate Appropriations, and member of Banking and Insurance. His grasp of issues, embrace of our “new ideas,” openness to our fair-share health and wellness tax, and query of SB 400 opponents (exposing their ignorance of Single Payer) are all good signs.
This leads me to a broader discussion of the significance of what happened yesterday…
I know, I know, you say, we’ve been here before. Right? Politicians raising our hopes and then letting us down. Actually, so far and past and present experiences inform me, I perceive elements remarkably different and, I believe, promising.
For starters, it’s time to imagine what is unimaginable to many (or most?) citizen activists. And yet, the “unimaginable” is a course Healthcare for All Pennsylvania has been on since 2006 — a course that subsequent events have borne out.
Based on a repeatedly validated assumption that, because of the destructive effects of campaign contributions from health insurance, pharmaceutical, and allied interests to politicians in both major parties, as well as a political culture of “incrementalism,” we must be fiercely non-partisan, evidence-based, organizationally sound, forthright and flexible, and mindful of our federalist constitution and political history.
In other words, we have long held that the winning coalition around the proven Single Payer Solution will be comprised of “conscience Republicans” and “conscience Democrats,” beginning with one of our “modeling” fifty states. And, in the case of Pennsylvania, not only do we have political advantages that others do not, but we have what appears to be a thoughtful and courageous GOP leadership on the joined issues of healthcare delivery, healthcare economics, and healthcare financing. Put another way, we have legislative leadership in the State Senate that “gets it” — analysis of problems, openness to policy prescriptions, and a feel for the political choreography needed to bridge policy pieces, key players, and central institutions.
Finally, and by way of consensus emerging from yesterday’s historic Banking and Insurance Committee hearing, our next critical step is to raise the funding to complete our ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY. Two months ago, you and other HC4APA supporters provided the $5,000 in seed money to get us to the point where we are today. Now, with the study prospectus in hand and bidding negotiations finalized, it is on all of us to raise an additional $49,000 to complete our EIS and, provided the learning experiences of other states, “grease the legislative skids.” We truly are that close. So, obviously, if you can give, do so to the best of your ability. If you know others who can contribute, please ask them to help as well. And if you know folks who are serious enough about considering a donation, but need a briefing on SB 400/HB 1660, let us know that as well.
Dr. Walter Tsou:
“My overall impression was this was an enormously successful and impressive showing for Pennsylvania state single payer. Yes, I may be biased, but our four panelists did a superb job in explaining the Family and Business Health Security Act. To explain why I say this, consider the concluding remarks of Senator Don White, Republican Chair of the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee. First, Senator White offered that “there were those who said I should not have this hearing” — a clear rebuke of the fearful during this time of healthcare and economic crisis. Second, whereas in his opening comments he downplayed expectations for the hearing as a “fact-finding session only,” by the end, his praise of the Single Payer presenters was so “positive,” he declared that this opening act was just the beginning of a series of hearings on this most important topic.
The hearing began with Senator White, a former insurance broker, welcoming everyone and inviting Senator Jim Ferlo, the lead sponsor of SB 400, to present some opening thoughts. Ferlo explained the need to look at different approaches rather than be tied to the usual failed insurance model. Among other attributes, he said that the state Single Payer plan would free employers from the onerous burden of skyrocketing health insurance costs by, instead, providing healthcare for everyone at far less cost.
Chuck Pennacchio, Executive Director of Healthcare for all PA spoke next and further explained the particulars of the state-level, Single Payer approach, and how it represents values we can all embrace: freedom, choice, fiscal conservatism, personal responsibility, modeling solutions, constitutional federalism, fair-share taxation, efficiency, transparency, accountability, jobs creation, bureaucratic streamlining, investment and reinvestment, coordinated and comprehensive care, reduced rationing, restored patient-provider relationship, healthy outcomes, tort remedy, end bankruptcy fears, healthcare education, “medical home” data base, and more.
Patricia Eakin, RN from Philadelphia explained that she was a nurse in one of the busiest ERs in Pennsylvania at Temple and that she sees the problems of the lack of insurance on a daily basis. She gave some examples of the problems faced by people who have lack insurance. She noted how her hospital was losing money because they had to spend limited resources on billing personnel, and had to absorb, and/or pass along, financial losses on people without insurance or on Medicaid.
Dwight Michaels, MD, a Republican, and family practice doctor from Gettysburg, spoke about how his experience with private insurance bureaucrats had driven him to support the Single Payer Solution. He said it is increasingly difficult to practice medicine because his five-person practice struggles daily with 20 different insurance plans, all with different rules. This bureaucratic nightmare makes it impossible to spend quality time with his patients because he is forced to justify more and more of his procedures with the insurance carriers. Dr. Michaels’ testimony was a vivid description of the life of a family doctor in a dysfunctional system.
David Steil, a former Republican state legislator and head of a small manufacturing business was another inspired choice. Not only did he know all of the Senators but, as a creative-thinking lawmaker, he broke the stereotype that all Single Payer supporters are lefties. Mr. Steil spoke about how he tries to run a business, but the cost and hassle of health insurance has made his company more vulnerable in an international market where his non-American competitors have far cheaper health costs.
I think this panel worked extremely well. Not only were they excellent speakers, but they spoke from real world experiences, not as paid lobbyists. And two were Republicans which was an added bonus. The committee had many questions, but none were nasty and all seemed genuinely interested in the real world experiences of the panelists. And the room was packed with 90% supporters of SB 400. I don’t think this was lost on the committee.
The opposing panel were all known lobbyists for their respective interest groups. They gave the usual refrain of condemning single payer.
NFIB speaker – he simply declared that small businesses don’t want Single Payer, but admitted that healthcare costs are the number one concern of businesses. They want the same outcomes that only Single Payer provides. But since that involves “government bureaucracy,” it cannot possibly work.
PA Medical Society – wants tort reform but not Single Payer because it would be too powerful in controlling reimbursements (and costs).
Capitol Blue Cross – gave a confusing talk about the problems with the Washington federal bill and then simply concluded that SB 400 is just like the Washington bill and should be rejected. Of course, nothing in the federal bill even resembles Single Payer, which is why it is so unpopular.
Hospital Association of PA – opposes any government controls generically. Gave a knee-jerk opposition to Single Payer.
Insurance Federation of PA – same as the hospitals. They oppose Single Payer as “monopolistic” — working from the assumption that the 35-cents-on-the-healthcare-dollar insurance “middle man” is indispensable, and that a little more regulation and industry “innovation” will solve cost issues.
There was not much time for questions but, frankly, they were special interest lobbyists and not a very interesting opposing panel. If this was a debate, the clear winners were the Single Payer SB 400 panel who did a great service in advancing state-level Single Payer today.
Happy Holidays to everyone. And thanks for all you do.
Chuck and Walter
First ever Republican controlled State Senate has hearing for single payer in PA
December 11, 2009
On Wed, Dec. 16 at 8:30 AM, an historic meeting will take place. The nation’s first committee hearing by a Republican controlled State Senate will hold hearings on SB 400, the Family and Business Health Security Act which would institute a single payer plan for Pennsylvania. The pro single payer speakers include Dr. Dwight Michaels from Gettysburg Family Practice who is a conservative Republican doctor who now supports single payer. The second Republican speaker is Dave Steil, Former State Representative from Bucks County and now a small business owner. The third speaker is Chuck Pennachio who is the Executive Director of Health Care for All Pennsylvania. All three are members of the Chamber of Commerce. The final speaker is Patricia Eakin, RN who is the President of the Pennsylvania Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals. If you are able get up early, please come to this hearing in Room 8E-A East Wing, Capitol Building. We need to support this revolutionary bill that will cover all medical, hospital, dental, and long term care services for less money than we now spend.
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ACTION ALERT – SENATE HEARING CONFIRMED!
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1) If you have social media, i.e. facebook, twitter, myspace, — start today on your update saying the following:
“Medicare for all type of healthcare reform in PA, SB400, will get its first public hearing this coming wednesday in Harrisburgh, stay tuned. go to www.healthcare4allpa.org for more info.”
or
“Washington botched healthcare reform, now we have to keep the fight in the states. SB400, single payer reform in PA will have its first public hearing next wed. in Harrisburg. Go to www.healthcare4allpa.org for more info”
If you use twitter, get creative with 140 characters
Please, please, we have gone this route before and very few of you have followed up on using social media despite having it. Just use your update (what’s in your mind today section) and do this once.
2 – A brief call to your local newspaper telling them of the public hearing coming up, and that you expect to read in their pages what happens next wednesday, could be good
3. All of you who are in the healthcare field, two things:
A – The PA Medical Society is opposing the bills — if you are a member, or know someone who is a member, ask them to call the Harrisburg office and ask why is the Society opposing health reform that will benefit the members, the patients and the state of PA – The contact info is: Phone: (717) 558-7750
Toll free in Pennsylvania only: (800) 228-7823
Toll free in Pennsylvania only: (800) 228-7823
B -Same if you work at a hospital, call your local hospital and ask to speak to the adminstrator and ask why is the hospital blocking healthcare reform in PA that would certainly benefit them and the community.
4. If you listen to talk radio in PA, call and talk about the public hearing coming up.
5. If you are coming to the public hearing next wed at 8:30 AM
6. Let us know if you do any of these things.
Have fun folks
Pedro & Chuck
Philly 13
October 31, 2009
Today, thirteen brave people sat in front of the entrance of Independence Blue Cross (IBC), in order to demand that IBC change its practice of pretending to be a non profit, while spending millions lobbying against real health care reform. They were arrested for exercising their constitutional right to protest. A hundred more chanting protestors singing “We Shall Not Be Moved” circled in front of Independence Blue Cross, the largest insurer in the Delaware Valley. About half of those arrested were students active in the Student Healthcare Action Network. Among those arrested were Jeff M., an organizer with Healthcare NOW, Rhone F., an organizer with PDA, and Paula B. with Health Care for All Philadelphia. Their letter to Joe Frick, CEO of IBC said the following:
Dear Joseph Frick,
We recognize that Independence Blue Cross was founded with the social mission of providing affordable healthcare to citizens in the Philadelphia area. We know Independence Blue Cross is concerned about the 200,000 Philadelphians and 46 million Americans who cannot afford health insurance. We also know that you’re concerned about the rapidly rising costs of healthcare in this country.
We are concerned, however, with the fact that Independence Blue Cross continues to deny its members life-saving care and is currently funding efforts to kill meaningful healthcare reform in this country, which would bring more affordable healthcare to more people. You have done well at cloaking your efforts behind the slogan “get healthcare reform right,” but your scare tactics and accusations that even a public health care option will have “dangerous consequences” are not benefiting your policy-holders. You are using millions of dollars worth of our insurance premiums to spread that message, too.
The information is in, and it shows that the best option to insure all Americans and provide the best quality care is a single -payer universal healthcare plan. The time has come for Independence Blue Cross to stop blocking the meaningful reform that Americans need and to carry out its mission of serving the “public good”, not its own bottom line.
We are demanding, therefore, that you agree to the following:
1. Until the passage of either a nationwide or statewide single-payer healthcare system, Independence Blue Cross will agree to cover all doctor-ordered procedures and care.
2. IBC will immediately stop using our insurance premiums to fund efforts to quash meaningful reform, such as the fake grassroots (“astroturf”) organization GetHealthReformRight.org
3. You will join us at a press conference in one week to announce IBC’s support for both state and national efforts to create a single-payer health insurance system.
Sincerely,
Student Healthcare Action Network
Healthcare NOW!
Mobilization for Healthcare for All
I, Joseph Frick, in order to fulfill Independence Blue Cross’ mission to provide affordable healthcare to residents of the Philadelphia area, agree to the aboe demands. I will join you at a press conference in front of Independence Blue Cross offices one week from today to confirm that we have met your demands and to announce Independence Blue Cross’ support for a single-payer healthcare system.
Signed,
__________________ (Frick never came down to sign this)
Today thousands more called Speaker Pelosi’s office demanding that the Kucinich and Weiner amendments be put forward for a vote as previously promised. Their office was apparently instructed to transfer all such calls to an answering machine. We should be appalled at this effort to dismiss single payer advocates. Short of single payer, this 1,990 page effort to reform health care will be indecipherable for the American public and will quickly become unaffordable. We will be trying to build a house on a crumbling foundation. It will not work and we will be back here again in four years asking what went wrong.
Rally for state single payer health care: Oct. 20
September 9, 2009
Time for Pennsylvania to get single payer and lead the Nation to a better health system.
Come Join Us!
Rally and Lobby at the Capitol in Harrisburg
for The Family and Business Healthcare Security Act
Support Single Payer Healthcare for All Pennsylvanians
House Bill 1660, Senate Bill 400
Tuesday, October 20, 2009-10 to Noon
Featured Speakers include: Wendell Potter, Senator Jim Ferlo, Rep Kathy Manderino
Patti Eakins of PASNAP, Donna Smith, Chuck Pennacchio, Walter Tsou, MD, PNHP
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A TOWN HALL MEETING WITH WENDELL POTTER
September 7, 2009
“THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY:
AN INSIDER SPEAKS OUT”
A TOWN HALL MEETING
WITH WENDELL POTTER
Former Chief of Corporate Communications, CIGNA
Saturday, September 19, 2009
11 AM to 1 PM
The Free Library of Philadelphia
Parkway Central Library
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Wendell Potter has been widely interviewed in the NY Times, Washington Post, Phila. Inquirer, NPR, Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy Now! and cable television
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