Wendell Potter is the greatest health insurance analyst on the face of the planet. Most of my views on healthcare reform were formed by listening closely to everything that he has to say on the topic; others were formed based on my own personal experiences, including:
the outstanding coverage offered to employees of Fortune 50 companies (though it slowly becomes less outstanding each year), private insurance before the ACA, private insurance after the ACA (from a healthcare.gov type exchange, I’ve had both bronze and silver plans), and Medicaid.If you don’t know who Potter is, you really need to fix that (see the end of the diary). I sincerely believe that if it weren’t for his testimony before Congress and other efforts in 2009, the ACA would never have been passed. As an example, watch Potter below as he works to educate the masses about the horrors of rescission, a common industry practice at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgz1crsj8jg
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