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

    • nova@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

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

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        4 months ago

        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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      4 months ago

      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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          4 months ago

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

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    4 months ago

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

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        4 months ago

        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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            4 months ago

            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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      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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    He’s been estranged from his wife for a while (standard suspect) and who knows what kind of lunatic business rivals or failed affairs he’s had. I’m really gonna enjoy the dead silence when it turns out the killer was hired by some crazy ex-gf.

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    4 months ago

    I hate when people don’t specify monthly or yearly pay, especially with health insurance CEOs where it can be both

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      I hate when people talk about executive pay without specifying both salary and stock. After all, Elon Musk supposedly earns zero salary and zero cash bonus, but seems to be getting by

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    4 months ago

    8 is a good goal. You can basically MegaMan your way through them. We all know the first one is the hardest! 7 to go!

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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.