How Insurance Companies Took Control of Your Doctor’s Decisions

Wendell Potter exposes how health insurers rewrote the rules of care and turned the doctor‑patient relationship into a profit engine. He saw it firsthand while running corporate communications at Cigna. His most recent piece tracks how every prior authorization, network restriction, and cost‑sharing gimmick serves Wall Street, not sick people.

I have been shouting this since the Clinton era. Patients believe doctors call the shots. Insurers pull the strings. They dictate what gets approved, how long it takes, and how much you pay. That chokehold forces doctors to spend more time coding for billing than treating people. It is deliberate. It makes shareholders rich while everyone else drowns in paperwork and debt.

Wendell is a dear friend and colleague of more than a decade. I genuflect at his alter because because he names the villains and documents their tactics. I point as many of you as possible to him because he is *the* source.

The healthcare system works exactly as designed. Read his work. Share it. Stop pretending this will fix itself.

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SOURCE ➡️ https://healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/how-insurers-hijacked-the-doctor