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	<title>Wendell Potter</title>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s Rhetoric Torpedoed Medicare Savings</title>
		<link>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/05/palins-rhetoric-torpedoed-medicare-savings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Death panel&#8217; charge demonized crucial end-of-life consultations. We’ll be hearing a lot from politicians this summer and fall about the urgency of dealing with Medicare spending, which will begin to rise sharply in the coming years as increasing numbers of the country’s 75 million baby boomers turn 65. If we’re fortunate, some courageous candidates will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False Quick fixes for American Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 10:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silver bullets haven&#8217;t really reduced costs or improved service. You’ve heard it before. Let’s deep six ObamaCare and replace it with a trio of sure-fire free-market solutions to the problems that plague our health care system. All that’s really needed, we’re told, is to pass tort reform, allow insurance companies to sell policies across state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Our Premiums Into Medical Care, Not Profits</title>
		<link>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/05/putting-our-premiums-into-medical-care-not-profits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rockefeller provision of health care law will require consumer rebates from insurers who didn&#8217;t spend enough on care. The recent news from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation that health insurers will have to send rebate checks totaling more than $1.3 billion to Americans this summer was especially gratifying to me. It more than justified my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shareholders Raising Ruckus About CEO Pay</title>
		<link>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/04/shareholders-raising-ruckus-about-ceo-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cigna chief enjoyed 25 percent raise. One of my responsibilities when I was head of corporate communications at Cigna was to help ensure that the company’s annual meeting of shareholders ran smoothly and, if at all possible, attracted no negative publicity. I always dreaded the annual meeting because you really never knew if one or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Insurers Try to Fool Congress with Fuzzy Math</title>
		<link>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/04/health-insurers-try-to-fool-congress-with-fuzzy-math/</link>
		<comments>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/04/health-insurers-try-to-fool-congress-with-fuzzy-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The special interests and spin doctors behind those new subway ads. Want to find out what Congress is about to vote on? Take a ride on the Washington subway. If you’ve been on the Metro in recent days, you might have seen an ad designed to make you feel sorry for our poor health insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Insurance Industry Needs Obamacare to Stay in Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health insurers are banking on the individual mandate. If there is a group of people more anxious about how the Supreme Court will rule on the health care reform law than President Obama and the millions of Americans who are already benefiting from it, it is health insurance executives. Not only have their companies been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope the Supremes strike down ObamaCare? Get ready for PanemCare</title>
		<link>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/04/hope-the-supremes-strike-down-obamacare-get-ready-for-panemcare/</link>
		<comments>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/04/hope-the-supremes-strike-down-obamacare-get-ready-for-panemcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia clearly isn&#8217;t going to take the time to actually read the health care reform law before he decides whether or not it&#8217;s constitutional, maybe he and a couple of his buddies on the High Court can catch a screening of &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221;, the movie about children battling each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slogans Versus Substance in the Battle Over ObamaCare&#8217;s Future</title>
		<link>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/03/slogans-versus-substance-in-the-battle-over-obamacares-future/</link>
		<comments>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/03/slogans-versus-substance-in-the-battle-over-obamacares-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cries of &#8216;Hands off my health care&#8217; mask the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. Hands off my health care! Remember those words from the health care reform debate of two years ago? I’m confident we’ll be seeing them on protest signs in Washington again this week as the Supreme Court hears arguments on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of Leadership at the Top of Corporate Ladder</title>
		<link>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/03/lack-of-leadership-at-the-top-of-corporate-ladder/</link>
		<comments>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/03/lack-of-leadership-at-the-top-of-corporate-ladder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health insurers or investment banks, the values are still misplaced. As I was reading former Wall Street executive Greg Smith’s bombshell of an Op-Ed in the New York Times last week, I mentally inserted the names of the big for-profit health insurers — two of which I worked for — in place of Goldman Sachs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ripple Effect of &#8216;Cost-Shifting&#8217; Uncompensated Medical Care</title>
		<link>http://wendellpotter.com/2012/03/ripple-effect-of-cost-shifting-uncompensated-medical-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without a mandate for health insurance, hospitals and taxpayers can get stuck with the bill. If I were trying to persuade the Supreme Court later this month that Obamacare should not be declared unconstitutional, I would tell the story of the woman who was the original named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the National [...]]]></description>
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