Authentic Hero
by digby
If you haven’t seen this segment with Michael Moore and insurance company whistle-blower Wendel Potter take the time. to do it. It’s a rare moment of authentic, unscripted television discussing a very creepy episode of corporate thuggery.
“Sicko” was instrumental in opening people’s minds to the necessity for health care reform. I think it’s Moore’s best film and I can understand why the insurance industry was afraid of it. (They did find other ingenious ways of emasculating the reforms, as we well know.)
Moore calls Potter the Daniel Ellsberg of the insurance industry and he is. The sad thing is that America is so cynical and disillusioned already that it isn’t at all shocked by what he had to say.