offer some answers as someone who knows the business of for profit health insurance very well wendell potter a former vice president of corporate communications for cigna turned health care industry whistleblower and currently the senior fellow on health care for the center for media and democracy he's also the author of the book deadly spin and insurance company insider speaks out about how corporate p.r. is killing health care and deceiving americans run but welcome to the program. why is united health care rolling in dough worded this is how can how can one guy stephen hemsley walk off with a billion dollars how is this even possible in america we'll talk about not life and death issue yeah in fact by the time it's all over time he retires and that stash of stuff about from the much much greater than that is because these companies take a lot of what we we pay them in for our premiums and skim it off for other purposes and that's more and more and more every year that's happening and that's why congress by the way had a provision in the health care reform law to at least require the spin

one person who was working on coalitions with citizens for santa corner me is wendell potter a former health insurance industry spin doctor turned whistleblower about these deceptive practices. they have insurance industry is very much like that back over history and it's held in very low regard by the public and they know that they have very little credibility and sells so they have to establish these front groups to carry their messages for them they do this so that a third party is telling their stories if they want to be told and getting the word out that they want to get out according to when to push them and kate benefit of using front groups is that they can say things the company couldn't actually get away we sang them so they're hired guns and they do what they were told to do. and it doesn't matter necessarily what the tactics are sometimes that it involves a mini ethics or a highlighting ethical standards they will do that terms like government takeover of the health care system is one that has been used many times to scare people away from reform and it's misleading no pla