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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt" class=MsoNormal><B><A href="http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory/Politics/Contemporary-Issues/Commonwealth-Club-Radio-Program-Podcast/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN>An Evening with Michael Moore and His Latest Film, Capitalism: A Love Story</SPAN></A></B> <BR><BR><I>Author: Commonwealth Club of California/INFORUM <BR>Mon, Sep 21, 2009</I>
<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">An Evening with Michael Moore and His Latest Film, Capitalism: A Love Story </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Who are we and why do we behave the way that we do? Writer, director and producer Moore has been trying to answer that question his entire filmmaking career. His latest film, Capitalism: A Love Story, investigates the powerful forces behind the calamitous predicament in which countless Americans are finding themselves: losing their homes, jobs and savings to foot the bill for past spending. What is the price that America – and the rest of the world – pays for its love of capitalism? From Middle America to the halls of power in Washington to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan, Moore takes filmgoers into uncharted territory as he tries to get to the heart of the matter.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><B>This program was recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco at The Commonwealth Club of California on September 17, 2009 </B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking to Wendell Potter. For twenty years he was an executive at CIGNA and Humana. Most importantly, in the years at CIGNA, he was their chief corporate spokesperson, but has left to blow the whistle on insurance companies. </FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>WENDELL POTTER: Well, clearly, <B>this senator [Chuck Grassley] has the insurance industry’s best interests at heart, not the American public and not his constituents.</B> </FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>He has said that he didn’t think a public plan would be fair, compete fairly with insurance companies who—the private insurance industry. <B>I’d like to ask him what is fair about the way that the insurance industries operate today, the companies that dump sick people when they need insurance most. What is fair about the way the insurance industry operates, Senator Grassley?</B> </FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>AMY GOODMAN<B>: Forty-five million new customers, that’s what the private insurance companies can now look forward to</B>, if a bill like what came out of the Senate Finance Committee moves forward with the mandate. Explain how they will make out and how important, how significant, how profitable this is for the for-profit companies. </FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>WENDELL POTTER: <B>Yeah, this is the first time that the insurance industry has really seen great opportunity in healthcare reform,</B> with an individual mandate, which would require all of us to buy insurance if we are not eligible for a public, government-run program, which, fortunately, many people are. We would have to buy it in the private market from insurance companies, many of whom—many of which are for-profit companies. We would not have the option of buying or getting insurance through a government-run program like the public option would create. </FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So, not only would our premium dollars go into this—into the private insurance industry, but a lot of tax dollars would.</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Most people who don’t have insurance can’t afford it, and they wouldn’t be able to afford it after healthcare reform is passed without the government subsidizing their premiums<B>. So billions and billions of taxpayers’ dollars will flow right into the treasuries of these big for-profit insurance companies</B>. So we will be essentially paying a tax that will help support these insurance companies<B>. It will be an enormous bailout of the health insurance industry.</B></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></B></DIV></DIV></td></tr></table><br>