UnitedHealth Group ceo compensation last year: $101,959,866

[The Straight Story]

http://ww3.startribune.com/projects/exec_comp/topCeoView.php

Salary: $1,300,000
Bonus: $1,950,000
Misc: $86,916
stock option exercise: $98,578,350

[jpak]

1. I bet he never attends a fund raiser for a sick child or puts $$ in a med-bill donation can

$98 million in stock options?

WTF

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Does anyone have a link to the CEO compensation....

for the companies who laid off the most workers?

Thanks for this. :)

:hi:

[Catshrink]

5. Here's a start

It's the "Executive Pay Watch" page from the AFL-CIO:

http://aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/

The right side has links you can use to find the pay at various companies using different criteria.

[OneGrassRoot]

6. Thanks! :) n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

7. Here's an article, too.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/01/2191243/ceo-compensation-totaled-598-million.html

Thanks again. :hi:

[Catshrink]

10. Thank you...

why is it we never hear about this in the MSM? Why isn't Obama talking about it? Oh...my bad. He likes the banksters.

[rocktivity]

13. In a word, $$$$$$

You don't hear about it from the MSM because it might cost them ad revenues. And you don't hear about it from the politicians because it might cost them campaign contributions and post-political career cushy jobs. In the meantime, we pay higher premiums than we ought to, get sicker than we need to, and die sooner than we're supposed to.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[L0oniX]

28. Does anyone know where this sociopath lives?

[Scruffy1]

29. He lives in a mansion on Lake Minnetonka

[Angry Dragon]

3. I am surprised he could live on this salary

It is a good idea for the bush tax cuts to continue, otherwise this man and his family might be on welfare soon.

[HughBeaumont]

22. Ain't it?

Do CNBC/Faux/MSM's anchors wonder why most of us look on in dumbfounded amazement to any pundit or DLCer who suggests that "not extending the Bush Tax Cuts may have some repercussions on the economy"? They have had NINE YEARS with the lowest TMTR since the 1930s. NINE YEARS. During that time, America has experienced the worst recovery from an official recession and has had zero job growth and a canyon of debt, while CEOs and fund managers give themselves raise after bonus after perk package.

I just don't know what more there is we can do to please and continually appease the wealthy before someone actually takes a progressive stand and says "ENOUGH ALREADY. You need to suck it up and start paying your fair share.".

[L0oniX]

27. I'm surprised that a father who's child died from coverage denial has not killed the bastard.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

32. s/surprised/disappointed/g

[chill_wind]

4. K & R. n/t

[metapunditedgy]

8. That's obscene, no other word for it. I'd be ashamed to even be connected to that guy. n/t

[Larry Ogg]

15. The many who have a conscience

becomes the lucrative means by which those few, who have no conscience, greatly prosper...

[Octafish]

9. He deserves it.

He really does.

[JoeyT]

11. K&R

Either you forgot a decimal, or it's time to start gathering the tar and feathers.

[jtrockville]

12. Imagine how many people could get health care

if we didn't fork over this much dough to the health insurance industry.

[xchrom]

14. Recommend

[gophates]

16. He's no different than any other rich CEO

Start with a 100% tax on income over a reasonable amount, say $500K and a lot of crap like this changes.

[SargeUNN]

17. I feel so sorry for this guy I just might

take part of my huge monthly income of just under $630 and donate most of it to him. God it must be awful to have to endure the shame and self sacrifice he has to make just to stay alive. I sure am glad I have all the money I have so I can live so comfortably. I really feel for this guy.

[SargeUNN]

20. after further thought

I decided to look for ways to help this poor creature. I looked at my income to see where I can cut back or let go of things to help him. Here is what I came up with.

I don't really need a roof over my head, since I don't have internet, no TV, sit in the dark, and basically just sit and look at the walls.

Give up my food. I only can afford to eat one meal a day so cut that one out won't hurt too much will it.

Give him my spot at the VA for his medical needs since you know he doesn't get healthcare.

I would cut back more but there is nothing left to cut back, hmmm maybe if I would die it would help give him a chance.

[notesdev]

18. I guess we found someone who HCR helps, finally

not like this wasn't the specific intention all along, but hey let's cheer anything that gets labeled "reform" and not look too closely at what's under the sheet.

[area51]

40. +1

Each day, 273 people die due to lack of health care in the U.S.; that's 100,000 deaths per year.

We need single-payer health care, not a welfare bailout for the serial-killer insurance agencies.

We don't need the GingrichCare of mandated, unregulated, for-profit insurance that is still too expensive, only pays parts of medical bills, denies claims, and bankrupts people. Republinazi '93 plan:

"Subtitle F: Universal Coverage - Requires each citizen or lawful permanent resident to be covered under a qualified health plan or equivalent health care program by January 1, 2005."

"We will never have real reform until people's health stops being treated as a financial opportunity for corporations."

[AndyA]

19. That's a lot of customers being overcharged on their premiums.

What a bunch of bullshit.

Take half that amount and divide it among the customers, the amount they pay would drop considerably. It's insulting. And we have a government that's OK with that.

[northernlights]

37. that's a lot of customers being denied coverage

and told to eat shit and die by his company.

And we have a government who is going to require all of us to fork over more $$ to him and his ilk. x(

So my pitchfork is in my barn and nicely covered with fresh horseshit. Now where did I leave my torch?

Seriously, shit like this makes me crazy. This is just so wrong, there is no word for how wrong. We are well and totally fucked.

[indepat]

21. I'm so glad HCR has allowed for an individual to be rewarded in excess of $100 million per

through their death panels designed to deny covered medical treatment letting the patient die so profits inuring mostly to CEO-types can be maximized. Now is this not some great public policy or what? :P

[L0oniX]

26. HCR = epic fail

[indepat]

33. But does not HCR stand alone as a major post-junior progressive initiative while a plethora

of junior's illegal, patently irresponsible, or wrong-headed RW initiatives have been largely ratified/continued? :shrug:

[Mnemosyne]

23. knr n/t

[L0oniX]

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[Ignis]

34. +1

There are no words for this level of greed, and such a broken system.

[Vinca]

25. Well, the poor thing. I bet he stays up nights worried about

that 3% tax hike heading his way. Of course, the $98+ mil is probably not subject to it because it's stock options. Makes me ill. Oh . . . wait . . . I can't get ill because I can't afford insurance.

[raouldukelives]

30. I see dead people

[Ishoutandscream2]

31. Somewhere in hell, Ronald Reagan is smiling

His dream lives...

[Mosby]

35. At the very least compensation like this should come from profits

not stock options. They basically created this money from nothing and diluted the holdings of every UHC stockholder.

[anarch]

36. I think I'm going to be sick

b/c UHC is my "health insurance" company, and I generally can't afford to go to the doctor because I can't cover the damn deductible. Fuck these fucking parasites.

[northernlights]

38. just don't put in a claim

because it'll probably be denied. They gotta come up with that $101M somewhere, you know?

[bvar22]

39. Now, now.

We don't want to "begrudge them their wealth."
I mean, "Look at all the baseball players."
After all, "Its the Free Market."

[lostnfound]

41. I'd like THIS issue to be the top news on the political shows and debated left and right

about whether this is an efficient system of healthcare and what exactly he is being rewarded from and how many people are denied claims from United for bogus reasons, etc.

[dflprincess]

42. Thank God HCR passed!

:sarcasm:

Without it little Stevie Hemsley (if you want to make him mad pronounce his last name Helmsley) and others like him might have had to get honest jobs.

[slipslidingaway]

43. knr nt

[HankyDubs]

44. I've recently seen a spate of commercials

on MSNBC actually, all telling viewers about what a cuddly kitten UHC is and how important people are to them.

[orbitalman]

45. This is SO obscene so as to defy any kind of sense at all. n/t

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[orbitalman]

46. This is SO obscene so as to defy any kind of sense at all. n/t

[DirkGently]

47. That's a BILLION per decade. No one "earns" that kind of money. It is

TAKEN. And they're able to take it, because we continue to allow private companies to sell the right to LIVE at a profit.

In what universe is that okay?

[w8liftinglady]

48. this is slightly dated...the ceo salaries for all health insurance companies

http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2009/05/20/health-insurance-ceos-total-compensation-in-2008/
Ins. Co. & CEO With 2007 Total CEO Compensation

■Aetna Ronald A. Williams: $23,045,834
■Cigna H. Edward Hanway: $25,839,777
■Coventry Dale B. Wolf : $14,869,823
■Health Net Jay M. Gellert: $3,686,230
■Humana Michael McCallister: $10,312,557
■U.Health Grp Stephen J. Hemsley: $13,164,529
■WellPoint Angela Braly (2007): $9,094,271
L. Glasscock (2006): $23,886,169

Ins. Co. & CEO With 2008 Total CEO Compensation


■Aetna, Ronald A. Williams: $24,300,112
■Cigna, H. Edward Hanway: $12,236,740
■Coventry, Dale Wolf: $9,047,469
■Health Net, Jay Gellert: $4,425,355
■Humana, Michael McCallister: $4,764,309
■U. Health Group, Stephen J. Hemsley: $3,241,042
■Wellpoint, Angela Braly: $9,844,212


so...in spite of more people going without insurance-their salaries are doing quite well.

[joanbarnes]

49. United Health CEO

How many check-ups would this pay for? Prescriptions? Blood
tests? Mammograms? Colonoscopies?

[RedCloud]

50. Do we have this list for the entire US of A?

[oldironside]

51. No wonder...

... they are so scared of Socialism.

[Canuckistanian]

52. I'd be happy with the last 5 digits of that sum

What makes ANY single human being worth that much?

[Odin2005]

53. These fuckers need to have their fortunes expropriated.

[Quantess]

54. He got filthy rich by denying health care to customers as often as possible.