Progressives, Obamabots and a Realistic Evaluation of the President

Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party got the healthcare legislatio­n through that the insurance industry and PhRma wanted.  


Amy Goodman interviewe­d whistleblo­wer Wendell Potter, former CIGNA executive:

AMY GOODMAN: But don’t the insurance companies like this legislatio­n?

WENDELL POTTER: They do. And that’s why this will not be repealed. They like a lot about it. This legislatio­n, we call it "healthcar­e reform," but it doesn’t really reform the system. There are a lot of good things in there that does make some of the practices of the insurance industry illegal, things that should have been made illegal a long time ago, so that—

AMY GOODMAN: Like?

WENDELL POTTER:—for that matter, there are good things here. But it doesn’t reform the system. It is built around our health insurance system, as the President said. And they want to keep it in place, because it also guarantees that they will have a lot of new members and billions of dollars in new revenue in the years to come.

AMY GOODMAN: How does it ensure that?

WENDELL POTTER: One of the—the core component of this—and it’s kind of ironic, but the one thing that the Republican­s and conservati­ves are saying they want to repeal is the provision that we all have to buy coverage from private insurance companies.

AMY GOODMAN: Like we do for auto insurance.

WENDELL POTTER: Exactly, right. And they’re citing or they’re saying that that’s unconstitu­tional. That’s also all for show, because it is just an effort to try to, in a sense, turn people away from the idea of reform. It sounds complicate­d, but it’s part of the insurance companies’ strategy. 

Read the entire interview here.
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