Originally Posted by Ches
Originally Posted by JBS
I am afraid you picked a REALLY bad example to make your case.

Egads, you?re right, Jon. When I hit the post button I had an uneasy feeling that there was a scandal re the UHC exec in the recent past. All I can say is that at least one can ?fire? UHC, which I did for a while not from moral outrage but due to low reimbursement. Then I rehired them again a couple years later when they shaped up. Tough to do this with single payer.
I thought I remembered him getting a billion dollar bonus. When I googled I came up with this from Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/static/pvp2005/LIRRI3M.html
Which states in a 5 (200-2005) year period his compensation was $342,284 thou(sands) Does that mean 342 BILLION? What was that about $20 Mil?
Fines of $600 mil were chump change if I am reading that right.


Wendell
Pediatrician in Chicago

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