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Wendell Potter Case

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3. In the article Court case shows how health insurers rip off you and your employer Wendell Potter exposes some hidden facts about how the health insurance company BCBSM has been cheating on one of its costumers Hi-lex.
It all started when Hi-Lex’s company suspected that the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), Health Insurance Company was dishonest with them for 19 years. The documents filed in the case showed that in the year 1993 BCBSM executed a plan through which it would gather extra income by including certain mark-ups to hospital claims paid by its self-insured clients. After reviewing the evidences on this case, the judge was convinced that the accusations were true. He then ordered the insurance company to pay Hi-Lex 6.1 million …show more content…

He quitted his job because he knew a lot of hidden information about the insurance industry. Potter has worked on many investigations related to the health insurance domain.
He contributes in The Huffington Post bi-weekly and he responds to health care questions asked by readers on the ‘Ask Wendell’ feature. He also writes articles on the same topic on Healthinsurance.org.

The Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the real name of what is called the Obamacare. It is enacted to make a better quality of health insurance in the USA, which is also affordable for everyone. The ACA was signed into law by President Barrack Obama on March 23, 2010 and supported by the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is an association of 36 distinctive United States health insurance associations. It provides health insurances to more than 100 million Americans. The company was set up in 1929, and transformed into the Blue Cross Association in 1960, while Blue Shield grew in 1939 and the Blue Shield Association was made in 1948. The two affiliations united in 1982. …show more content…

It was found in 1939 and it is the largest health insurance company in Michigan.

Hi-lex is a Japanese company, concerned in the manufacturing of automotive technologies. It has different locations in Northern America precisely in the United States and Mexico. It is also present in 9 countries outside the American continent. It was established in 1946 in Japan, and established the 1st technical affiliation in U.S.A. in Michigan. Its net income today is around 113 million $.

The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit investigative news organization, founded in 1989 by Charles Lewis. Its mission is to reveal abuses of power, betrayal and corruption in order to serve democracy, using investigative journalism tools. The Center’s staffs are mainly journalists, copy editors, fact-checkers, and researchers who work on the investigative projects held by the center.
According to the code of ethics of journalists provided by the SPJ (society of professional journalists), a journalist should:
• Seek truth and report it
• Be accountable and transparent
• Act independently
• Minimize harm
Let’s see if Wendell potter followed this code of

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