Put up 150 dollars for somebody to make a short Youtube infomercial,about these facts
(cross referenced from DU)
From 2000 to 2005, $14.9 billion went to just 23 CEO’s of major heath care companys
Thursday, August 23, 2007
CEO Compensation: Who Said Health Care is in a Financial Crisis?
Those of you who are struggling to pay for your generic medicines or wondering why the doctor is charging you a $5.00 co-pay, give some thought to these facts about how our health care dollars are allocated. At the end of this post, there is a list of 23 health companies I found on Forbes.com, what the CEO was paid in 2005, and the average paid to the CEO in the past five years.
Imagine adding vice presidents, Board of Directors, stock holders and the other 200-300 other companies all cashing in on your health to that total at the bottom.
Based on this, the next time you want to argue with your Primary Care doctor’s front desk about a $5.00 co-pay, remember that he makes an average of $149,000.00 per year. On the other hand — using United Healthcare as an example — your insurance company paid their CEO — one man — $324,000,000 over a recent five year period.
If you are uninsured, try calling any one of these 23 CEOs and see if they will give you free insurance.
BTW: 10% of 14.9 billion is 1.4 billion. If basic insurance costs $8,000/year for a family then taking 10% from just these CEO salaries would insure 35,000 Americans a year for five years. That is a lot of people that can be helped just by 23 men. Looking at the companies as a whole that profit from health care, we can probably pay for every uninsured person in this country for decades to come.
The numbers are numbing, which is why we should do something about this.
United Health Group
CEO: William W McGuire
2005: 124.8 mil
5-year: 342 milForest Labs
CEO: Howard Solomon
2005: 92.1 mil
5-year: 295 milCaremark Rx
CEO: Edwin M Crawford
2005: 77.9 mil
5-year: 93.6 milAbbott Lab
CEO: Miles White
2005: 26.2 mil
5-year: 25.8 milAetna
CEO: John Rowe
2005: 22.1 mil
5-year:57.8 milAmgen
CEO: Kevin Sharer
2005:5.7 mil
5-year:59.5 milBectin-Dickinson
CEO: Edwin Ludwig
2005: 10 mil
5-year:18 milBoston Scientific
CEO:
2005:38.1 mil
5-year:45 milCardinal Health
CEO: James Tobin
2005:1.1 mil
5-year:33.5 milCigna
CEO: H. Edward Hanway
2005:13.3 mil
5-year:62.8 milGenzyme
CEO: Henri Termeer
2005: 19 mil
5-year:60.7 milHumana
CEO: Michael McAllister
2005:2.3 mil
5-year:12.9 milJohnson & Johnson
CEO: William Weldon
2005:6.1 mil
5-year:19.7 milLaboratory Corp America
CEO: Thomas MacMahon
2005 :7.9 mil
5-year:41.8 milEli Lilly
CEO: Sidney Taurel
2005 :7.2 mil
5-year:37.9 milMcKesson
CEO: John Hammergen
2005: 13.4 mil
5-year:31.2 milMedtronic
CEO: Arthur Collins
2005: 4.7 mil
5-year:39 milMerck Raymond Gilmartin
CEO:
2005: 37.8 mil
5-year:49.6 milPacifiCare Health
CEO: Howard Phanstiel
2005: 3.4 mil
5-year: 8.5 milPfizer
CEO: Henry McKinnell
2005: 14 mil
5-year: 74 milWell Choice
CEO: Michael Stocker
2005: 3.2 mil
5-year: 10.7 milWellPoint
CEO: Larry Glasscock
2005: 23 mil
5-year: 46.8 milWyeth
CEO: Robert Essner
2005:6.5 mil
5-year: 28.9 milTOTAL 2005: 559.8 mil
TOTAL 5-Year: 14.9 billion
http://blogs.webmd.com/mad-about-medicine/2007/08/ceo-c…
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Can’t help with the youtube but …
William McGuire. Hmmm. Where have I heard that name before?
Oh yea, he’s “Dollar Bill” McGuire … er … that’s 1.6 BILLION dollars
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06108/683054-28.stm
For an idea what a billion dollars looks like, click here
Talk to the morning people or send a facebook message and ask people to forward it. Sorry I got no skills at this.
hanks TCU…i wish i did too
Unfreakingbelievable, sadly. Sick. Health care in America is SICK!
recommended. i have no such skills, but it’s a great idea. i hope it happens. i forwarded the link to this article to someone who last i heard was needing work and whom i think could do it. we’ll see what happens. his name is malcolm. let me know if it somehow works out.
I’m happy to put together a video on this issue. You can see my work and contact me through http://deepplanetarts.com. I look forward to hearing from you!
sadlyyes, YesLetsdoit is who I was telling you i forwarded the info to.
Incredible info. Thanks so much for your research and putting this together for us. HealthNet is not in the list; maybe they’re not big enough or their CEO is not getting tons of money. But I’m kind of glad they weren’t on the list.
Blessings,
Just what were CEO’s of companies that made money free of government welfare making?
what WILL 15,000,000,000.00 DOLLARS BUY?
Date: 08 Jan 2002
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sadlyyes, please email again and resend your email address (check the spelling) or send phone number. I’ve tried replying to your email and I’m getting a failure notice in response. Looking forward to talking with you!
yes, please do try to call malcolm (YeLetsdoit) and/or give him your phone number. and try the email again.
here’s what he wrote me in a email about it:
“I’ve been thinking of some funny viral comedy spots on this issue that’ll fight the fight through laughter, would be great to have the funds to make a couple of them.”