Deadly Spin An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

Name: Deadly Spin An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
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ISBN: 9781608194049

ISBN-10: 1608194043

ISBN-13: 9781608194049

Edition: 2013

Authors: Wendell Potter

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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Wendell Potter is a Senior Fellow on Health Care for the Center for Media and Democracy. In 2009, he retired after a twenty-year career as a PR executive for health insurers to speak out on both the need for health care reform and the increasingly unchecked influence of corporate PR. He is a native of Tennessee.



Foreword to the Paperback Edition


Foreword


Introduction



The Beginning



The Campaign Against Sicko



Perception Is Reality



Remote Area Medical in Wise County, Virginia



Health Care History, Reform, and Failure



Consumer-Driven Care



It's All About the Money



An End Too Soon



ERISA Stymies the Sarkisyans, and Us



A Victory, of Sorts



The Playbook



Spinning Out of Control


Acknowledgments


Resource Guide


Notes


Index