August 11, 2009

FROM RACHEL MADDOW'S BLOG

Health Insurance: More Profits With Fewer Customers?

How is it possible that profits for the top 10 health insurance companies rose over 400% percent between 2000 and 2007 while the number of Americans without health insurance grew 19% percent?

Health insurance executive turned industry whistleblower, Wendell Potter, explains that health insurance companies put their corporate profits ahead of the people they're meant to insure. (No offense, but duh!)