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

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    2 years ago

    Reminder, at 20M per year you have to work ten thousand years to earn 200B, which is the realm Musk is in…

    • Certainly a very valid point, and hopefully we’re building up to that (bigger money comes with much tighter security), but I do think the people so directly sacrificing people’s lives for profit shouldn’t be overlooked.

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    2 years ago

    This photo is notably missing Andrew Witty the CEO of UnitedHealth Group the parent company of UnitedHealthcare of which Brian Thompson was CEO. Andrew Witty made $23.5m last year.

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    2 years ago

    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!

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    2 years 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.

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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.

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        2 years ago

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

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

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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.

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    2 years ago

    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.

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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.

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    He’s been estranged from his wife for a while (standard suspect) and who knows what kind of lunatic business rivals or failed affairs he’s had. I’m really gonna enjoy the dead silence when it turns out the killer was hired by some crazy ex-gf.

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    2 years ago

    Are you familiar with the shadow of mordor mechanics? He’s just getting started