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

  • Zier
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    544 months ago

    That’s an very interesting looking Bingo card.

    • LostXOR
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      294 months ago

      I’ve got this DIY submarine too, it’s a 55 gallon drum with a bunch of scrap metal tied to the side as ballast. Guaranteed to be a comfortable ride!

  • @phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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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.

  • @taiyang@lemmy.world
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    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!

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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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

      • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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        24 months ago

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

        • @Aux@sh.itjust.works
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          34 months ago

          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.

          • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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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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    424 months ago

    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.

    • @DiagnosedADHD@lemmy.world
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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.

    • TGhost [She/Her]
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      64 months ago

      I really dislike violence

      There is many types of violence,
      It isnt just physics one.

      • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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        74 months ago

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

        • NostraDavid
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          14 months ago

          Is systemic violence not a subgroup of physical violence? Is violence not per definition physical? I’m confused.

          • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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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.

    • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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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.

  • originalucifer
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    634 months ago

    i care less about their compensation than the profit their companies made denying care to a volume of humans. do we have those numbers?

      • @NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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        34 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.

    • @Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      134 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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    UnitedHealthcare Group should be in the picture as well, with Andrew Witty $18.8 M (from 2021) 23.5 M last year, according to another commenter.

    Witty is the CEO of the group. Thompson was only CEO of UnitedHealthcare - one of the parent conglomerates’ many subsidiaries.