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Wendell, I have been following your writings and interviews very closely, and I must say that your revelations about the inner workings of the health care industry and the industry's attempts to sabotage health care reform are a wake-up call. However, I am confused by the "hard-wired" comment you made in this latest interview. Having worked in PR, an industry that works to shape/manipulate public opinion, it would seem ironic that you would think the beliefs and world views of others are hard-wired. Also, just your own history seems to contradict this idea, being an example of how powerful the environment is in influencing people's behaviors. Anyway, I do not know that you can entirely mean what you said because you have done a great duty by arming people with the information that you have in your speaking out, allowing us to enter into the critical debate on healthcare fully prepared. Your information even helped me to step out on the front porch the other day to talk someone knocking on doors to solicit signatures for a letter to Congress AGAINST healthcare reform. After making the person sweat bullets by challenging all of the old talking points that you once took part in disseminating, it seemed as if I was able to raise some level of doubt before we parted with a hand shake. I cannot know if that really influenced anything, but in any case I felt good about the encounter. Thank you so much for stepping up to "do the right thing." Please continue to keep us informed as it is helping people everyday to become more informed about "the system." Being among the nearly 50 million who are without healthcare, I will not forget it. Dan