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The Fear of Sicko: CIGNA Whistleblower Wendell Potter Apologizes to Michael Moore for PR Smear Campaign; Moore Says Industry Was Afraid Film Would Cause A 'Tipping Point' for Healthcare Reform

We host a joint interview with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and Wendell Potter, who was the head of corporate communications for the health insurance giant CIGNA when Moore’s film, Sicko, was released in 2007. Potter left the company in 2008 and has since become the industry’s most prominent whistleblower. In the interview, Potter apologizes for his role in the industry’s attack on Moore and the film.

Moore accepted his apology, but acknowledged to Potter that, “I think we both know this is much larger then what was done to me or in the movie.” Moore said that the industry was willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to “stop a movie” because they were afraid it “could trigger a populist uprising against,” what he called, a “sick system that will allow companies to profit off of us when we fall ill.”



"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
~ Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering,
Nazi Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander, the Nuremberg Trials

"Push Michael Moore Off a Cliff"
Health Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter Details How the Industry Attacked Michael Moore’s Film Sicko

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Dr. Atul Gawande on Real Healthcare Reform
Why Solitary Confinement Is Torture, and His New Book, "The Checklist Manifesto"



Michael Moore's Official Website
Wendell Potter's Official Webiste
Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC,
an interview with Michael Moore and Wendell Potter
Wendell Potter's Public Letter to Michael Moore
Read confidential docs drafted by America's Health Insurance Plans outlining strategy against Sicko (1)
Read confidential docs drafted by America's Health Insurance Plans outlining strategy against Sicko (2)

Wendell Potter discussed the campaign on Democracy Now! last week.Then MSNBC host Keith Olbermann picked up our interview on his show Countdown.

KEITH OLBERMANN: Potter telling Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman that his company contracted a PR firm to “defame Michael Moore, to discredit him,” to figuratively, “Push Michael Moore off a cliff.”


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~ The Economist March 28th 1992

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