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Testimony Of Wendell Potter and Dr. Linda Peeno
Domestic Policy Subcommittee
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
2154Rayburn HOB
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Testimony Of Wendell Potter
Senior Fellow on Health Policy
The Center for Media and Democracy
Thank you Chairman Kucinich for the opportunity to address the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Domestic Policy. Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Jordan, and Members of this Subcommittee, my name is Wendell Potter, and I am humbled to be here today and testify beside fellow Americans who have been so harmed by the deplorable practices of an industry I worked in for many years.
The title of today’s hearing serves as an important antidote to some of the rhetoric about who or what stands between a patient and his or her doctor. I know there are many who fear the idea of a government bureaucrat in that space but the alternative has proved much more fearsome. The status quo for most Americans is that health insurance bureaucrats stand between them and their doctors right now, and maximizing profit is
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Aiming to Heal Managed Care
When Dr. Linda Peeno received an offer from Showtime about producing a movie chronicling her crusade to change health maintenance organizations, she didn’t return the cable network’s call. “I was really reluctant for a long time,” Peeno said.
Eventually, however, she realized a film could educate people about the managed care system and agreed to cooperate on the making of “Damaged Care,” premiering Sunday. Peeno hopes the movie will provide “a kind of systematic understanding that health care is not something we are going to fix with patient rights legislation. There are some fundamental questions we have to deal with and ask.”
Laura Dern stars as the doctor who spent several years in Kentucky raising her children before returning to the health care profession as a medical reviewer and director of two different managed care organizations. Not only did she find the work unrewarding, she bristled under decisions she had to make due to financial constraints.
Peeno discovered much to her dismay that her employers wanted her to reject nearly every claim
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