Wendell Potter’s career in communications spans more than four decades, half of which he spent as a communications and public affairs executive for major health insurers, Humana and Cigna. After witnessing firsthand how these corporations use strategic PR and lobbying to tilt the scales toward corporate interests, Wendell abandoned his corporate career to advocate for meaningful health care reform. 

In 2009, Wendell appeared before Congress to offer his expert testimony on health insurance in the U.S. He pulled the curtains back to reveal business practices and propaganda tactics that contribute to spiraling health care costs and the growing number of uninsured and underinsured Americans. 

No one understands better than Wendell how a few insurance companies have grown to gargantuan size; how they continue to mislead all of us, including our employers and the people we vote for, and spend huge sums of our taxes and premium dollars to enrich their executives and shareholders. 

Wendell leads the nonprofit Center for Health and Democracy and the Lower Out-of-Pocket NOW Coalition, an organization that advocates for health insurance that doesn’t leave families buried under mountains of medical debt. He is also the publisher and executive editor of HEALTH CARE un-covered.