“So the next time you hear someone warning against a “government takeover” of our health care system, or that the creation of a public health insurance option would send us down the “slippery slope toward socialism,” know that someone like I used to be wrote those terms, knowing it might turn many of the very people who would benefit most from meaningful reform into unwitting spokespeople for the industry.” —Wendell Potter, former Vice President of Corporate Communications at CIGNA
Potter makes the broader point that even if some of the town hall screamers aren’t directly health insurance shills, they’re repeating talking points fed to shills by the health insurance industry.
