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Sorry but it is not a little more. You can tax those making over 250K at 90% and you still wont have enough money to cover the costs of coveringeveryones healthcare, and the implications on medicine are a lot greater than just not wanting to care for the lower class. I think there needs to be majorinsurance reform that is probably the biggest problem now but with Obama's plan the major insurance companies will eventually be pushed out cause theycannot compete with the govt. For example right now the reimbursements rates to anesthesiologists from medicare are 1/3 of what the insurance companies pay.Basically they are making up for what the govt is underpaying. If everyone is under the govt the reimbursements to anesthesiologists will plummet as will theirsalaries and they will no longer be profitable.Originally Posted by 360wavesandxbox
The top executive of Medicare gets about $150,000 annually. Here are the salaries of some health insurance executives for the year 2006: Ronald A. Williams, chair-CEO, Aetna Inc., $23,045,834; H. Edward Hanway, chair-CEO, Cigna Corp, $30.16 million; David B. Snow, Jr, chair-CEO, Medco Health, $21.76 million; Michael B. MCallister, CEO, Humana Inc, $20.06 million; Stephen J. Hemsley, CEO, UnitedHealth Group, $13,164,529; Dale B. Wolf, CEO, Coventry Health Care, $20.86 million; Jay M. Gellert, president-CEO, Health Net, $16.65 million; Raymond McCaskey, CEO, Health Care Service Corp (Blue Cross Blue Shield), $10.3 million.
If you can afford health insurance, if you can get it at all, this is where a lot of your premium is going. Is it any wonder that the insurance companies are fighting reform?
That was taken from another poster on a different site..
This is my point. People are so worried about paying a little more to benefit other people that might not be deemed "worthy" by them..Um HELLO..where do u think your money is going now?
It always baffles me how people can be so insensitve to people of lower classes and not do anything for their benefit but insist on making the rich even richer while they themselves stumble along.. See the Banking industry and Car Industry and all the opposers of what Obama is doing...WAKE UP