Wendell Potter: Insurance 'sold across state lines' is to circumvent state laws and is 'junk'

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We have all heard Republicans repeat this mantra--insurance 'sold across state lines.' This is no accident. It is what their benefactors, health insurance companies, desire. These policies are big money makers.

Wendell Potter, former VP of Cigna, was on MSNBC's Keith Olbermann tonight. He put it this way. Health care industry lobbyists to their Republican friends: Keep the law intact (particularly the mandate part) but strip out the consumer protections and the regulations we don't like.

Potter said they were going through the motions to repeal the bill for their base whom they had convinced that repeal was necessary--knowing full well it will go nowhere.

Potter also said that Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is a well known go-to person for the health insurance industry to get done whatever they want done.

It is an interview worth watching and quoting--and should be on Countdown later for viewing.