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I reposted this with updates.
Though it might be helpful.
(I was a corporate pilot for many years)
Will add post from time to time......
"FOLLOW THE MONEY"
(Luxury, without the nuisance of the TSA)
UNITED HEALTH CARE
HAWKER 800XP
N803FL
Price $17,500,000.00 USD
$1431.67 per hour
N733K
Humana's Falon 50
They have 4 others...
Price $14,995,000.00 USD
3100.00 per hour
(use this to verify)
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=733K&x=0&y=0
Gee, I wonder what kind of jet does medicare use ?
(SEE BELOW)
UNITED HEALTH CARE
GULFSTREAM G50
N56UH
Insurance executives eat like birds! (for better tyranny)
$67,000,000
$3,300.00 per hour
UNITED HEALTH CARE
DASSAULT
FALCON 2000EX
N267BW
$26,150,000 USD
$2,700.00 per hour
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Name_Results.aspx?Nametxt=UNITED+HEALTH&sort_option=1&PageNo=1
CIGNA CORPORATION
DASSAULT
FALCON 900EX
N176CL
$20,500,000 USD
$2400.00 per hour
CIGNA CORPORATION
DASSAULT
FALCON 2000EX
N176CG
$19,495,000
$2300.00 per hour
Kaiser Permanente
(not for profit)
1991 Cessna 560
N115K
Aprox: 1,400,000 USD
$1200.00 per hour
Now Medicare
Here's what they used to have,
(for sale now)
1976 Cessna 414
$356,000 USD
Cost Per Hour $238.87
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF IOWA
N586BC
1986 Super King Air 200
Price $1,995,000 USD
Cost Per Hour: $541.60
Meet the parasites:
Ron Williams - Aetna
Total Compensation: $24,300,112
Details: Williams earned $24,300,112 in total compensation for 2008, with more than half of that ($13,537,365) coming from option awards. He also received an additional $6,456,630 in stock awards to go along with his base salary of $1,091,764.
Personal use of a corporate aircraft and vehicle, as well as financial planning and 401(k) company matches added up to $101,487 for Williams...
H. Edward Hanway - CIGNA
Total Compensation: $12,236,740
Details: Hanway took a significant pay cut from 2007 to 2008, due mainly to a drop off of more than $11 million in his non-equity incentive plan compensation. Still, his base salary of $1,142,885 surpasses that of Aetna's Williams, and is supplemented by just over $3.6 million in option awards, and just over $820,000 in non-qualified deferred compensation earnings.
Also, nearly $21,800 in "other compensation" included the use of a company car with a driver, in-office meals, and emergency assistance services relating to medical exams...
Angela Braly - WellPoint
Total Compensation: $9,844,212
Details: Braly, like Williams, earned more money in 2008 ($9,844,212) than in 2007 (9,094,271), increasing her option rewards by nearly $1.5 million, and also receiving a $200,000-plus bump in base salary, from $922,269 to $1,135,538. Braly's stock awards dropped from $2,160,159 to $1,750,015 because, according to the SEC, "performance-based restricted stock units awarded in 2008 were cancelled because our ROE target for 2008 was not met."
Braly's "other compensation" comprised use of a private jet for her and her family on business trips, just under $10,000 for legal services relating to her employment agreement and cash credits....
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)Feeding the tumor of private insurance instead of excising it will slowly kill the patient, a process of pathology already underway. People like to point to Massachusetts as the model for what we've tried so far - I say great! Let's point to Massachusetts. The United States has the worst health care costs of anyplace in the world. And Massachusetts has the worst health care costs of anyplace in the United States. Go down that route if you want to keep choking to death on the Big Insurance's jet exhaust.
pansypoo53219
(20,977 posts)the bigger problem is THE HEALTH INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX and over treatment. never letting people die. over testing.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)CrispyQ
(36,468 posts)anon-y-moose
(200 posts)THE AIRPORT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PLACE TO HIDE MONEY YOU DON"T WANT THE PUBLIC TO SEE...
hunter
(38,313 posts)And some deals simply can't be accomplished with a conference call.
RC
(25,592 posts)No wonder they have all these ways of denying coverage.