Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Nice Gig If You Can Get It

Here are (reportedly) the salaries of some of the top health care execs in the nation:

• Ronald A. Williams, Chair/ CEO, Aetna Inc., $23,045,834
• 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
• 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, Blue Cross Blue Shield 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
• Cleve L. Killingsworth, President/CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, $3.6 million
• Raymond McCaskey, CEO, Health Care Service Corp (Blue Cross Blue Shield), $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

Now, the people who posted this used it as an argument in favor of single-payer (yup, socialized) health care. I fear that a lot of people in the country these days are using jealousy over other people's pay to advocate for socialization of everything.

Is Major League Baseball next? Obama can make Joe Biden "the czar of sports" to go along with his other meaningless (and unfulfillable) titles.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who on gods green earth needs that much money. I wouldn't complain if I got but think of that. 30 million. Heck the company I worked for made 25% more than that last year. I just don't get it. How do we pay these people this much and then bail them out. You would think they would get hit with some serious penalties or be forced to pay their business back by liquidating some of their assets. Capping their salaries is one thing getting the money back is another.

Anonymous said...

Geez...the highest paid person I knew of was 2million. These guys are pulling in up towards 30million. Uhhh...these guys should be supplying the bail out money