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Ex-Health Insurance Executive Lists All The Moves Insurance Companies Might Pull On People During This Crisis

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When the world is trying to unite amid one of the greatest crises in recent decades, there are always some people who try to take advantage of it. This time it’s not about stockpiling and price gouging, but something on a much larger scale.

We’re talking about health insurance companies. Wendell Potter, a whistleblower and former vice president of one health insurance company, has warned people to keep an eye on every move of that good ol’ industry.

In a series of Twitter posts, he busted all the sinister tactics some insurance corporations use to “deny care and maintain profits while making it look like they’re heroes.” Potter insists “not to count on” things they claim because “this pandemic will reveal how devastating insurers’ greed” will be to so many Americans.

Bored Panda contacted Wendell Potter to find out more about healthcare insurers’ tactics amid the coronavirus outbreak. Scroll down to find out what he said below.

More info: Twitter | Facebook | WendellPotter.com

This advocate for healthcare reform has warned people about health insurers’ tricks in a series of tweets

Ex-Health Insurance Executive Lists All The Moves Insurance Companies Might Pull On People During This Crisis

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Ex-Health Insurance Executive Lists All The Moves Insurance Companies Might Pull On People During This Crisis

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Ex-Health Insurance Executive Lists All The Moves Insurance Companies Might Pull On People During This Crisis

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Wendell Potter, a New York Times bestselling author and an advocate of health insurance reform, told Bored Panda that the coronavirus pandemic is waking more people up to the reality. “Our system is on the verge of collapse, in large part because we have allowed private insurers to run that system.” In fact, “for one thing, the days in which they call the shots in this country are numbered.”

One cannot help but wonder how the insurers get away with all their machination. Potter explained: “One is because we have never had adequate oversight and regulation of the health insurance business in this country.” Everyone has taken a patchwork approach to regulation. What’s more, “most people with private health insurance get their coverage through their employers, and because of a federal law enacted several years ago, those health plans are exempt from state regulation.”

Ex-Health Insurance Executive Lists All The Moves Insurance Companies Might Pull On People During This Crisis

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Ex-Health Insurance Executive Lists All The Moves Insurance Companies Might Pull On People During This Crisis

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Potter believes that during the current public health crisis, Americans are particularly vulnerable. This is because, unlike in other developed countries, “we’re nowhere close to having universal coverage.” Even 10 years after the Affordable Care Act was passed, “we have approximately 30 million people who are uninsured—plus another 60 million who are underinsured.”

And that will put themselves and others in danger. Potter explained: “many people in this country are reluctant to seek the care they need because of the expense. Undoubtedly, he went on further, “many Americans will not get tested, much less seek treatment, for fear of having to pay money they simply don’t have.”

Ex-Health Insurance Executive Lists All The Moves Insurance Companies Might Pull On People During This Crisis

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Liucija Adomaite is a creative mind with years of experience in copywriting. She has a dynamic set of experiences from advertising, academia, and journalism. This time, she has set out on a journey to investigate the ways in which we communicate ideas on a large scale. Her current mission is to find a magic formula for how to make ideas, news, and other such things spread like a virus.

Liucija Adomaite is a creative mind with years of experience in copywriting. She has a dynamic set of experiences from advertising, academia, and journalism. This time, she has set out on a journey to investigate the ways in which we communicate ideas on a large scale. Her current mission is to find a magic formula for how to make ideas, news, and other such things spread like a virus.

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I'm a visual editor at Bored Panda. I kickstart my day with a mug of coffee bigger than my head, ready to tackle Photoshop. I navigate through the digital jungle with finesse, fueled by bamboo breaks and caffeine kicks. When the workday winds down, you might catch me devouring bamboo snacks while binging on the latest TV show, gaming or I could be out in nature, soaking up the tranquility and communing with my inner panda.

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John Louis 4 years ago

1. Every major western industrialized country has some form of universal care except the US, 2. The insurance industry makes its money by not paying out. 3. Appeals to big government ruining health care ignore that state Medicaid programs work just fine. 4. The insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the medical industry control congress with lucrative lobbying and huge campaign contributions. 5. Many of these politicians are shills of these industries 6. A universal health care would be cheaper as it would consolidate and reduce administrative costs 7. Low information voters are giving into anti-government nonsense propaganda 8. Universal health care insures all Americans get proper health care coverage.

12points

Bill Taylor 4 years ago

I fully agree John, well stated. Insurance companies are a huge lobby group on Capitol Hill.

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Kevin Hickey 4 years ago

The television tells us that Medicare for all will cost $32 trillion dollars over the next ten years. They always forget to mention how much our current system will cost over the next ten years.

7points

Mystery Egg 4 years ago

Whenever I hear/read stories about the American "health care" system, I thank my lucky stars I live in Europe.

6points

Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago

Help me move...please?

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John Louis 4 years ago

1. Every major western industrialized country has some form of universal care except the US, 2. The insurance industry makes its money by not paying out. 3. Appeals to big government ruining health care ignore that state Medicaid programs work just fine. 4. The insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the medical industry control congress with lucrative lobbying and huge campaign contributions. 5. Many of these politicians are shills of these industries 6. A universal health care would be cheaper as it would consolidate and reduce administrative costs 7. Low information voters are giving into anti-government nonsense propaganda 8. Universal health care insures all Americans get proper health care coverage.

12points

Bill Taylor 4 years ago

I fully agree John, well stated. Insurance companies are a huge lobby group on Capitol Hill.

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Kevin Hickey 4 years ago

The television tells us that Medicare for all will cost $32 trillion dollars over the next ten years. They always forget to mention how much our current system will cost over the next ten years.

7points

Mystery Egg 4 years ago

Whenever I hear/read stories about the American "health care" system, I thank my lucky stars I live in Europe.

6points

Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago

Help me move...please?

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