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Wendell Potter
Personal blog · healthcareuncovered.substack.comhealthpolitics
Wendell Potter writes HEALTH CARE un-covered, a personal blog at healthcareuncovered.substack.com about health and politics. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Wendell Potter's Substack on the US health insurance industry: insurer profits, coverage numbers, and insurers owning providers to get around medical loss ratios. The comments cite its posts without judging them.
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Pulling back the curtains on how Big Health is hurting Americans and how we got to this point.
What Hacker News says?
Health insurers tripled their profits while covering 80,000 fewer people 2015-2025 [0] What is the difference between the 32 developed countries who successfully deliver healthcare to all their residents, vs the wealthiest country of all of them who still fails, and yet spends twice what the rest spend? Private Insurance runs the whole thing. And it is a sh*tty business. Insurance company profits do not account for…
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on “My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry”Submitted Commonwealth Fund: The U.S. Health Care System Is an International Embarrassment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis isn't the whole story. There's a lot of "legal" self-dealing going on where insurance companies essentially own providers and then pay the providers which allows the insurance companies to circumvent the medical loss ratios. More here: https://healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/self-dealing-ille...
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on “US commercial insurers pay 254% of Medicare for the same hospital procedures”Submitted Hospitals That Sue You for Getting Sick as a story · 2 points
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