Gezondheidszorg in de USA
Deze getuigenis van Wendell Potter, voormalig Vice President van één van de grootste ziekteverzekeraars van de USA, is bijzonder interessant. Vooral de manier waarop hij het politieke proces in de USA beschrijft:
The industry has always tried to make Americans think that government-run systems are the worst thing that could possibly happen to them, that if you even consider that, you're heading down on the slippery slope towards socialism. So they have used scare tactics for years and years and years, to keep that from happening. If there were a broader program like our Medicare program, it could potentially reduce the profits of these big companies. So that is their biggest concern.
Part of the effort to discredit this film (SICKO) was to use lobbyists and their own staff to go onto Capitol Hill and say, "Look, you don't want to believe this movie. You don't want to talk about it. You don't want to endorse it. And if you do, we can make things tough for you. By running ads, commercials in your home district when you're running for reelection, not contributing to your campaigns again, or contributing to your competitor."