ID: image titled “Health Insurance CEOS and their pay:” above 8 photos of the CEO

Cigna, DAVID CORDANI $21M

WellCare, MICHAEL CARSON $23.5M

Humana, BRUCE BROUSSARD $16.3 M

CENTENE Corporation, SARAH LONDON $18.6 M

MOLINA HEALTHCARE, JOSEPH ZUBRETSKY $21.4 M

CVS Health, KAREN LYNCH $21.6 M

Elevance Health, GAIL BOUDREAUX $21.9 M

United Healthcare, BRIAN THOMPSON $10.2 M

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      For real, Thompson might be the lowest on the list, but United had some of the highest denial rates. And I bet they’re damn proud of the rates too.

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    I think it’s more about denied claims. UHC denies more than 30% of claims whereas most other insurers range between 10-20%. UHC denies the most claims by a big margin. This is likely to make you some enemies.

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    Reminder, at 20M per year you have to work ten thousand years to earn 200B, which is the realm Musk is in…

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      Certainly a very valid point, and hopefully we’re building up to that (bigger money comes with much tighter security), but I do think the people so directly sacrificing people’s lives for profit shouldn’t be overlooked.

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      Yeah, and as I posted somewhere else, 10.2M is only a measly $196.000 a weak… /s

      Such a low salary. Bet we all can work all our whole lives and not even get half of 10.2M in total.

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    This photo is notably missing Andrew Witty the CEO of UnitedHealth Group the parent company of UnitedHealthcare of which Brian Thompson was CEO. Andrew Witty made $23.5m last year.

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      Unless she got fired for whistleblowing, I think we can still count her, but it is good to stay up to date, thanks!

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        I remember she tried to overhaul their drug cost model to be less opaque and supposedly cheaper for consumers. Doesn’t seem like it ended up happening from my point of view. CVS is my PBM and keeps raising the cost for generics to the point where it’s cheaper to buy them without using insurance from an online pharmacy.

        But I wouldn’t want the new jerk who replaced her to escape attention, seeing as he came from the PBM business and is likely the reason for my above complaint.

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      There’s a direct correlation. Where do you think the money comes from?

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        This. Think about all the medical care these salaries could have provided. These people provide no value for their customers. Not a single patient received better care because of the CEO of their heath insurance provider.

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      Agreed. Otherwise you run into:

      No, I don’t get paid to deny coverage and let people die. I enjoy it so much I do it for free!

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          Isn’t that the literal origin story of the Jigsaw Killer in the Saw movies? Or something like that?

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          Right. It’s like hey I wanna hire you for a job. I’m quite generous so I’m going to offer you $50/hour. And I am also going to pay you 24/7, working, not working, sleeping, doesn’t matter. Then for some reason I’m going to back pay you all the way to year 0. So you’ll get that pay rate for the last 2024 years on the spot.

          You’re still not a billionaire.

          (approx $887,100,984 in case you’re wondering)

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    they are all small compared to the shareholders who likely decide the company policies more than the CEOs

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        well I sure am somehow buying products that probably goes to one of the shareholders’ pockets that is for sure.

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          No, you are the shareholder because you receive your salary into a bank account which then automatically gets invested (and unless your bank is ripping you off you should be getting a monthly interest) and you have a pension which is also invested. You are an ACTUAL shareholder.

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            there is no monthly interest in regular accounts here unless you put it in a savers account. but yes I do and I know that my pension usually invests the money too without much flexibility on where to invest it in. so unless you are Ron Swanson there is no complete disconnection from this web. but the fix is easy: all I have to say is “individually major share holder” since those will be the ones deciding about company policies not me.

            I think any company whose only shareholders are made up of people holding 0.000001% in shares wont suffer from the same consequences a company does when there are shareholders like %10, 20, 30 etc. Same difference between having billions or hundred thousands.

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    First, I always like to recognize good image transcription, thank you OP.

    I really dislike violence, and would never advocate for it; a just society offers better more evolved means of accountability and remedy.

    But the idea that it should feel dangerous to be a billionaire resonates down to my marrow.

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      Yeah I agree, but we dont really live in that society anymore. All attempts at reform are sidelined and corporate interests are put over our own constantly. I don’t like it either, but people have a breaking point and they can only take so much. If we had a stronger aca that wasn’t gutted by industry maybe there wouldn’t have been motive here.

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        Unfortunately, the ACA was gutted before it was signed. While it reduced the number of uninsured (by a lot), it is ultimately just another way public money could be funneled into these insurance companies.

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        Yeah, everyone gets upset about physical violence, but so few people care about the systemic violence perpetuated against the lower classes.

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            No, not all violence is physical, and while systemic violence can be violent, it very often isn’t. But it’s any damage or harmful action that’s carried out through normal operation.

            Systemic violence against the poor includes economic and social violence, like tax cuts, safety regulations repealed, or social programs being shutdown. None of these forms of systemic violence are physical, but it’s yet another metaphorical hit against people who can barely stand as it is. The racism baked onto the system (shit like redlining) isn’t necessarily physically violent, but it hurts and kills people all the same. Hell, the UHC guy getting killed and everyone cheering is because shit like the insurance industry is systemically violent against its consumers.

            The nonviolent forms of systemic violence due regularly lead to physical violence, such as houseless populations being rousted and their encampments torn down because it’s easier to be cruel than suffer the eyesore and help people.