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Former Health Exec Tells Inside Secrets Of Insurance Industry

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Tags: health insurance, Wendell Potter, Obamacare, single payer, PR, public relations, Cigna

Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. In a moment we’ll talk with Wendell Potter, the former CIGNA public relations executive who has left the company and now come out as a critic of the tactics used by the country’s health insurance companies to undermine health reform in the US.

Earlier this week:

Opponents of the health care overhaul scored a first major legal victory on Monday when a federal judge in Virginia ruled that Congress had overstepped its constitutional authority by o...