Blue Cross CEOs gorge on profits from premiums
A quick Google search for "salary president ceo blue cross tennessee" reveals that the chief executive officer of Blue Cross of Tennessee got a big salary boost to over $2 million this year. Searches for "salary president ceo blue cross [statename]" will get you the figures for the rest of the states. To keep it simple, though, let's just assume that the 50 CEOs of each Blue Cross operation in each of the 50 states makes roughly what the top guy in Tennessee gets, Tennessee not being exactly one of the wealthiest states. That means we're looking at well over $100 million of our health insurance premiums poured into the homes, yachts, and kids' private schools of a tiny elite instead of going into the provision of health care for Americans.
And that's just the money being skimmed off by the guys at the very top of one private insurance company, albeit one of the largest.
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