How to Curb Profiteering and Reclaim True Value (feat. Wendell Potter)

About this episode

Wendell Potter discusses the impact of industry profiteering on the American healthcare system and strategies to reclaim true value in healthcare.

The American healthcare system is facing market failure driven by consolidation by industry profiteers. Perhaps no one has a clearer view of how this took place — and what to do about it — than Wendell Potter. Called ‘the ideal whistleblower’ by Time magazine, Potter was a senior executive at insurance giants like Humana and Cigna until a crisis of conscience in 2008. As the Editor-In-Chief of the HEALTH CARE un-covered newsletter, President of the Center for Health and Democracy and bestselling author of Deadly Spin and Nation on the Take , Potter has since dedicated his career to exposing the tactics insurers use to prioritize shareholder returns over patient outcomes. He joins us to discuss the strategies employers, clinicians, policymakers and patients can implement to reclaim a system built on actual value. Find the transcript of this episode at movingtovalue.org/transcript/potter ________ Sign up for our email list. Thank you to our members who make our work possible! As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Moving to Value Alliance relies on generous supporters to advance our mission of creating a value-based healthcare ecosystem with high-quality health outcomes at a reasonable cost…

People in this episode

Host: Moving to Value Alliance

Guest: Wendell Potter

Topics covered

• healthcare system
• profiteering
• value-based care
• insurance industry
• patient outcomes
• health policy

Keywords

• healthcare
• profiteering
• Wendell Potter
• insurance
• value-based care
• patient outcomes
• health policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Humana, Cigna, HEALTH CARE un-covered, Center for Health and Democracy

Books & works: Deadly Spin, Nation on the Take

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