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Your health insurance
monthly premium payments at work
How much is too much? In the case of
health care executive pay, it appears that there is no amount that exceeds
common decency. In the last decade, twice as many people
have died from lack of health insurance as we lost in the Viet Nam
war. Yet the profits of health insurance companies are skyrocketing
and as you can see below, the payroll at the top of the ladder isn't
hurting much.
In a single payer US, these people would all
be working at other jobs. If businesses didn't have to fork over
huge premiums to insure their employees, then they wouldn't be so anxious
to move manufacturing facilities to nations that have national health
plans or where workers are downtrodden to the point where they can't
bargain for benefits.
Prepare to become
outraged.
ANNUAL COMPENSATION OF HEALTH INSURANCE
COMPANY EXECS (2006, 2007, or 2008
figures):
• Ronald A. Williams, Chair/ CEO,
Aetna Inc., $23,045,834; $24.3 million in 2008
• H. Edward Hanway,
Chair/ CEO, Cigna Corp, $30.16 million
• David B. Snow, Jr, Chair/ CEO,
Medco Health, $21.76 million
• Michael B. MCallister, CEO, Humana Inc,
$20.06 million
• Stephen J. Hemsley, CEO, UnitedHealth Group,
$13,164,529
• Angela F. Braly, President/ CEO, Wellpoint, $9,094,771;
$9.8 million in 2008
• Dale B. Wolf, CEO, Coventry Health Care, $20.86
million
• Jay M. Gellert, President/ CEO, Health Net, $16.65
million
• William C. Van Faasen, Chairman, BCBS of Massachusetts,
$3 million plus $16.4 million in retirement benefits
• Charlie Baker,
President/ CEO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, $1.5 million
• James
Roosevelt, Jr., CEO, Tufts Associated Health Plans, $1.3 million
•
Raymond McCaskey, CEO, Health Care Service Corp (BCBS), $10.3 million
•
Daniel P. McCartney, CEO, Healthcare Services Group, Inc, $ 1,061,513
•
Daniel Loepp, CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, $1,657,555
•
Todd S. Farha, CEO, WellCare Health Plans, $5,270,825
• Michael F.
Neidorff, CEO, Centene Corp, $8,750,751
• Daniel Loepp, CEO, Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Michigan, $1,657,555
• Todd S. Farha, CEO, WellCare
Health Plans, $5,270,825
• Michael F. Neidorff, CEO, Centene Corp,
$8,750,751; $8.8 million in 2008
• James Carlson, AMERIGROUP, $5.3
million in 2008
• Richard Barasch, Universal American, $3.5 million in
2008
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