Over the course of two decades, Wendell Potter has seen for-profit insurers hijack America’s healthcare system and put profits before patients. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers speaks with Potter—a former health insurance industry insider who has become an outspoken advocate for equitable healthcare—about the tactics being used by self-interested insurers to obstruct and manipulate the government’s efforts at healthcare reform. The program concludes with an essay on the ugliest reality of healthcare reform: that as long as money continues to talk, policymakers will continue to listen. Broadcast dates: July 10, 2009, and July 31, 2009. (55 minutes)
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