Sunday, January 16, 2011
Deadly Spin: Wendell Potter Speaks Out and Michael Moore's documentary film Sicko
Sunday, January 16, 2011@ 3 pm
Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN
Free
Sponsored by Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan, Howard's Book Store, The Ryder and WFHB Community Radio
Combining an afternoon with Wendell Potter speaking about his newly released book Deadly Spin, An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans and a showing of Michael Moore's 2007 award winning documentary, Sicko, experience the one two punch that validates the anger, frustration and disappointment many Americans feel with the ongoing healthcare debate. There will be a Q&A with Wendell and a book signing.
Since Wendell Potter walked away as head of communications at CIGNA in May of 2008, he has worked tirelessly as an outspoken critic of corporate PR and the distortion and fear manufactured by America's health insurance industry. It is a PR juggernaut that is bankrolled by millions of dollars, rivaling lobbying budgets and underwriting many "non-partisan" and "grassroots" organizations. Deadly Spin is not just an expose of health insurers but a stark warning that corporate spin is distorting our democracy.
Michael Moore's 2007 documentary Sicko investigates healthcare in America, focusing on the health insurance industry and Big Pharma. The film, laced with humor, compassion and outrage, compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit healthcare systems of Canada, the UK, Finland, France and Cuba.
One of Wendell Potter's many tasks as Communications Director for CIGNA included participating in a behind the scenes national campaign to discredit Michael Moore's Sicko.
Wendell Potter is a senior analyst at the Center for Public Integrity, the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy, a highlighted contributor for the Huffington Post, and a leading critic of the health insurance industry. After a thirty-year career in public relations, he left his job as a corporate pr executive to speak out against what he had seen and been a part of during his years in the health insurance industry. He has appeared on countless television and radio programs and been quoted in newspapers and magazines around the world. time magazine wrote that Potter "may be the ideal whistleblower". for more information, please visit www.WendellPotter.com.
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