When: Wednesday, October 15, 6 pm

What: Film screening and Panel Discussion

Where: CT Legislative Office Building Room 2E

Why: Every day, health insurance companies make billions of dollars for executives and shareholders by denying people care. Join us for an electrifying movie about a group of young people who take on the broken health care system, followed by a discussion with national and state leaders in health insurance advocacy and reform.

Join us on October 15 for an evening of entertainment and discussion about health insurance in America, and what we can do about it.

We will watch the heist movie Midas, shot entirely in Hartford, whose heroes take on an insurance monolith from the inside view the trailer. We will then have a panel discussion with national health insurance reformer Wendell Potter, Midas filmmaker TJ Noel-Sullivan, Senator Saud Anwar, and Senator Matt Lesser,  Connecticut’s Healthcare Advocate Kathleen Holt, Moderated by Rose Ferraro.

Wendell Potter, Editor-in-Chief of HEALTH CARE un-covered:

https://healthcareuncovered.substack.com/

Wendell Potter is a leading advocate for health care system reform in both the political arena and the marketplace.

Working dual roles, Wendell is president of the Center for Health and Democracy, he regularly engages across the political spectrum to discuss health insurance issues with members of Congress, state legislatures and their staffs. He is also the editor-in-chief ofHEALTH CARE un-covered, which investigates and reports on health care corporations and insurance conglomerates in particular. He frequently posts on X.

A New York Times bestselling author, Wendell returned to his first career of journalism after serving for two decades as head of communications for two of the country’s largest insurers, Cigna and Humana. He became an industry whistleblower when Congress was debating what became the Affordable Care Act. Wendell testified before several Senate and House committees, pulling the curtains back on prevalent industry business practices that resulted in higher health care costs and a growing number of uninsured and underinsured Americans.

His first book,Deadly Spin, won numerous awards and is still used in journalism and health policy classes at universities across the country. He has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and many other publications, and has appeared frequently on CNN, NPR, MSNBC, Fox Business and other media outlets.