RE: “Me thinks Ron Williams, CEO of Aetna. can expect to be summoned to Waxman’s witch hunt along with CEOs of AT&T, Deere, et. al.
Anyone who has doubted this Admin and this Congress want to DESTROY PRIVATE INDUSTRY in America, also do not believe Obama when he promised he was out to TRANSFORM America.”
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I know a bit re Williams — I was in the executive office at WellPoint when he was one of the top four execs there. He is one smart cookie! He takes no prisoners and knows the business extremely well - bright, bright guy.
At Aetna, he has the top spot though he may be wishing he’d stayed at WellPoint with Leonard Schaeffer, et al, and taken his many many millions in cash and stock when they were acquired by Anthem of Indiana. It was a case of the weaker company acquiring the stronger, larger one but hey, that’s another story.
The big insurers now initially thought Obama care sounded great; they would get the contracts to administer the plans and still remain more than solvent. But now that details are coming out, they are clearly rethinking their initial glee.
It will be interesting to see if Williams, who is black and more articulate and smart than Obama could ever hope to be, will have the guts to really speak out at any hearings. One can only ‘hope,’ eh?