CEO Salaries and Health Insurance for all

[Danieljay]

http://blogs.webmd.com/mad-about-medicine/2007/08/ceo-compensation-who-said-healthcare-is.html

I still support single payer or public option, but I found this interesting.

5 year total of 23 Health companies CEO salaries totalled 14.9 Billion dollars. 10% of 14.9 billion is 1.4 billion. If basic insurance costs $8,000/year for a family then taking 10% from just these CEO salaries would insure 35,000 Americans a year ...for five years. That is a lot of people that can be helped just by 23 men. Looking at the companies as a whole that profit from health care, we can probably pay for every uninsured person in this country for decades to come.Read More

[hankthecrank]

1. if you pay people more than they can spend no good will come from it

They have to buy up Government than

have you seen what it cost to buy gop government worker?

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy cost us $1trillion over 10 years.

Problem solved.

[Nikki Stone1]

3. kick

:kick: