Wendell Potter

How corporate financing and super PACs exert control over American politics, and run counter to the public interest. 

The secretive world of the charismatic, silver-tongued pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities – while spreading confusion about public health threats.

Wendell Potter, senior fellow on healthcare at the Center for Media and Democracy, former head of corporate communications for CIGNA and author, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans, discusses the insurance industry and healthcare today.  

Wendell Potter worked as an executive for over 15 years at health insurance giant CIGNA before becoming a whistle-blower and an advocate for health care reform.  He is currently the S...