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Julie Kliger

Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Healthcare Solutions Enterprise Technology and Digital Transformation Co-Leader

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Think Medicare-For-All is a Dirty Word? Health Insurance CEOs earned between 300 - 600 times more than the ‘regular’ employee. All major insurance companies paid their CEOs over 20Million dollars this year. Insurance companies collected a whopping $22Billion in profit—that’s profit—to be spent on executive bonuses. And let me remind you that those dollars started out as part of your salaries, which got withheld from your employer to cover these big profits. Got an issue with health insurance coverage being so darn expensive? Then I suggest you look at those private insurance companies raking in all your hard-earned money and start asking the hard question: ‘Why should they charge me such high rates if my money is not going towards health care for me and my family but instead being used to pay executives millions of dollars each year?’ And once you hear nothing from your insurance company then you might think differently about other ways we could be using our hard-earned dollars to benefit ourselves instead of benefiting some CEO. Selected Excerpt: “Combined, the CEOs of the eight largest publicly traded insurance companies, including pharmacy behemoth CVS, which acquired insurer Aetna, made $143.5 million in total compensation in 2018, up 14.4%.” …see more

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