#deadly spin

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The pervasiveness of attempts at mind control is so everywhere present in today’s world that we almost take it for granted.  It has become a part of who we are as human beings to convince others to believe as we do, to buy into our opinions, and to spend money for the products that we want to sell, whether or not it is for our own well being.

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RT @NPRFreshAir: Former Insurance Exec Offers An Insider's Look At #Obamacare

http://www.npr.org/2013/07/11/200443445/former-insurance-exec-offers-an-insiders-look-at-obamacare

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In today's world there's no standard definition of things like 'co-insurance' or 'co-payments.' People don't know, necessarily, what a lot of the terms are, but they'll have to be spelled out by any health plan that is offering coverage through the exchange. We'll be able to compare one plan with another, and information will have to be presented in a standardized format, not unlike the food labels and nutrition labels on food that we buy in the grocery store. In fact, that was kind of a model that Congress looked at. ... And something that will be going away will be the fine print. And that's where a lot of the most important information has been hidden. ... [I]nsurance companies will no longer be able to hide the most important elements of what is covered and what's not. It will have to be stated very explicitly and in language that people can understand.

Former health insurance executive and author of Deadly Spin, Wendell Potter tells Dave Davies about how the Affordable Care Act will clarify certain terms that have been confusing to people.

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Wendell Potter: Deadly Spin - January 11, 2012 (by House Media Collective)

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potter problems chapter 10

-Potter notes his associations with "Health Care for America NOW!" aka HCAN. He mentions how reform advocates were disappointed with HCAN for "giving up on single-payer too soon" but never mentions that HCAN is an astroturf organization created in mid-2008 during the height of reform efforts. It was never meant to do anything except support Obama's final bill, and shamelessly capitalize on long-running single-payer advocate group called "Healthcare-NOW!"

-When detailing the incident where Joe Wilson screamed "You lie!" at Obama's insistence that illegal immigrants would not be able to receive healthcare, Potter mentions that Wilson was rebuked on the floor of Congress, but does not mention how Wilson received almost a million dollars in donations in a short period of time afterward. Mentioning this amazing fundraising would bolster Potter's own claims of the insurance industry's misinformation campaign. Not mentioning this serves Potter's own narrative that toward the end, despite the long and troubled road, all the stars were aligning to finally pass the bill and not that strong opposition remained until its passage, and beyond.

-Detailing the misinformation campaign surrounding the public option, Potter discusses a study released by the insurance industry that ignored objective reality that purported a public option would "force millions into government-run programs" - while this is correct, Potter never notes the reality of the public option's status in any of the bills: such a small segment of citizens would have been eligible for the public option, and its premiums would have been so high as a consequence, that it would be comparable to private insurance. Because Potter never notes just how weak the public option in the bills were, when he notes its defeat, it makes it sound like an insurance industry win. Again, if Potter had given a bit of background on this that would have taken less than half a page, it would have bolstered his own claims of insurance industry influence.

-Max Baucus is named as a major player in writing one of the versions of the bill. Despite mentioning single-payer an unsignificant amount of times in the chapter, and mentioning how Potter himself met with Calnurses and PNHP, Potter never mentions how single-payer advocates were shut out of, and consequently arrested protesting, any hearings Baucus held on the bill's provisions.