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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (10494)	10/16/2009 11:31:21 AM
From: i-node	4 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

I guess the claim is true. but its not very meaningful. Add up all the health insurance companies CEO's salaries, and it will be a very insignificant portion of total health care costs. Even toss in their stock option earnings (which perhaps shouldn't be counted because its a cost in dilution to the investors not a direct hit on the companies earnings), and its still tiny. There may be an issue of these CEOs being over-payed, but only an issue for the stockholders, not an issue that's very relevant to the national debate on health care. Totally agree -- and this is a testament to the way in which the people have been manipulated in this debate. All the CEO salaries -- and for that matter, all the insurance company profits in this picture don't amount to a hill of beans compared with the real problems in the system. Yet, this has been a huge rallying cry for the Left. Unfortunately, it has served only to mislead people and not to further the cause of solving the problems at all. I've pointed this out time and again on this thread and the other -- you could take all the CEO salaries and all the health insurance profits out of the picture and you would not have improved the fiscal picture materially. This is about a vendetta against those who make more than the average amount of money; nothing else.