Wendell Potter

author, health insurance industry watchdog

Wendell Potter is the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy and a leading critic of the health insurance industry. After a thirty-year career in public relations, he left his job as a corporate pr executive to speak out against he had seen and been a part of during his years in the health insurance industry. He has appeared on countless television and radio programs and been cited in newspapers and magazines around the world. Time magazine wrote that Potter "may be the ideal whistleblower."