One of the cruelest things about life in the USA is the for-profit healthcare system. That a large percentage of bankruptcies in the USA are for medical expenses, and many of those instances are for people who already have insurance.
The self-proclaimed best-goddamn-country-in-the-world can't even take care of its own citizens' healthcare, even though it can zoom off into wars of choice extending billion dollar sweetheart deals to incompetent contractors with connections to its reckless VP, or allow shameless thieves to sell financial products they knew were over-inflated and then bail them out of their treacherous failures.
We could do all this, but somehow just didn't have the funds to give our citizens health security. Very strange priorities.
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Here are snippets from an article about healthcare for profit corporations' CEO pay. Link to article below =====
...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 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..... Some Examples of their pay in 2005, and the previous five years...
* United Health Group
CEO: William W McGuire
2005: 124.8 mil
5-year: 342 mil
* Forest Labs
CEO: Howard Solomon
2005: 92.1 mil
5-year: 295 mil
* Caremark Rx
CEO: Edwin M Crawford
2005: 77.9 mil
5-year: 93.6 mil
* Abbott Lab
CEO: Miles White
2005: 26.2 mil
5-year: 25.8 mil
* Aetna
CEO: John Rowe
2005: 22.1 mil
5-year:57.8 mil
http://blogs.webmd.com/mad-about-medicine/2007/08/ceo-compensation-who-said-healthcare-is.html