We need more “Gordon Gekkos” who are willing to “Liberate” these companies from these high-dollar CEOs.
There ya go...let’s have a Hollywood solution to our healthcare problems.
There is still strong disagreement over whether health care in the U.S. should be a right, a privilege or a commodity. Yet proponents of all three systems should be able to agree that health insurance executives, whose primary responsibility is to their stockholders, not to those whose health they oversee, are draining badly needed resources away from health care. Executive compensation isn’t the only reason for the high cost of health care. Medical procedures and prescription drugs both cost far more in the United States than in the rest of the world. Malpractice costs and excessive testing (often to avoid malpractice problems) have also contributed to rising health care costs. Crafting a functional health care system will require finding effective solutions to all of these problems. Freeing up the hundreds of millions of dollars now going to health insurance executives would be a good start in that direction. ;)