The U.S. Department of Justice is trying to block Aetna’s merger with Humana. And, Aetna, along with other for-profit insurers, are pulling out of most of the Obamacare state exchanges...
Wendell Potter
What to do about big money in politics
What can be done to reduce the outsized influence of special interests and a handful of billionaires on our political system? My new book with Nick Penniman, Nation on the Take: How Big Money...
Fixing democracy: Addressing big money in politics
What can we do to fix our democracy? We need to be out there advocating for reform. Among other things, we need to get big money out of politics and health care. It’s corrosive. In Deadly...
To maximize profit, health insurers dropping small businesses
Arguably, the people who have benefited most from the health care law—at least financially—are the top executives and shareholders of the country’s health insurance companies. And to maximize...