Fred, I'll be needing $10 from you, and all your friends, and their friends friends. But don't worry, I promise to think like you and we'll get that nasty bill crushed.
Jeff Miles [email protected] Join my Mafia http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=550968726 On Mar 1, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Fred Holmes wrote: > At 11:18 AM 3/1/2010, b_s-wilk wrote: >> After all, it's immoral to profit from others' illnesses and misfortunes, so >> why do many health health insurance executives have multi-million dollar >> salaries and benefits, and insurance companies have billion dollar profits? > > Let's do [some of] the math on this one. The other day the CEO of one of the > health insurers said before Congress that she received $10M in compensation, > something like $1M in salary and $9M in stock options. More or less. Well > if it's a major medical insurer, surely it has 10 million policyholders in a > country of 300 million citizens. So it cost about $1 per policyholder to pay > the CEO compensation package? Even if it were $10, that's not much. And if > the CEO makes the organization of that size work well, I would think that > she's worth it. Huge enterprises are very difficult to make work well. So > the government wants to trade in ten(? or more) insurance companies for one > huge organization that covers everybody, and pay the CEO of that how much? > > Fred Holmes > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
