Reply #145: Former CIGNA executive says Michael Moore was right all along ... [View All]

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Others feel Moore did an excellent job...




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'He talks about how a lot of these executives, including himself, are so removed from the real world, that the insured are no more than just numbers.

And that was my problem. I had been in the industry and I'd risen up in the ranks. And I had a great job. And I had a terrific office in a high-rise building in Philadelphia. I was insulated. I didn't really see what was going on. I saw the data. I knew that 47 million people were uninsured, but I didn't put faces with that number.

Then he says that everything about Canada and England that was reported in Michael Moore's Sicko was true and that they made a costly and concerted effort to derail the message of the movie.

We shouldn't fear government involvement in our health care system. There is an appropriate role for government, and it's been proven in the countries that were in that movie.

Potter then goes on in a very calm manner to indict the entire insurance industry for putting profit before people.'