BTW: 10% of 14.9 billion is 1.4 billion.

If basic insurance costs $8,000/year for a family
then taking 10% from just these CEO salaries would insure 35,000 Americans a year for five years.
That is a lot of people that can be helped just by 23 men.
Looking at the companies as a whole that profit from health care,
we can probably pay for every uninsured person in this country for decades to come.

Medical & Medical Insurance CEO Salaries

Medtronic
CEO:
Arthur Collins
2005: 4.7 mil
5-year:
39 mil
McKesson
CEO:
John Hammergen
2005: 13.4 mil
5-year:
31.2 mil
Boston Scientific
CEO:
2005:
38.1 mil
5-year:
45 mil
Merck Raymond Gilmartin
CEO:
2005: 37.8 mil
5-year:
49.6 mil
Cardinal Health
CEO:
James Tobin
2005:1.1 mil
5-year:
3.5 mil
Genzyme
CEO:
Henri Termeer
2005: 19 mil
5-year:
60.7 mil
Well Choice
CEO:
Michael Stocker
2005: 3.2 mil
5-year:
10.7 mil
WellPoint
CEO:
Larry Glasscock
2005: 23 mil
5-year:
46.8 mil
PacifiCare Health
CEO:
Howard Phanstiel
2005: 3.4 mil
5-year:
8.5 mil
Eli Lilly
CEO:
Sidney Taurel
2005:7.2 mil
5-year:
37.9 mil
Laboratory Corp America
CEO:
Thomas MacMahon
2005:7.9 mil
5-year:
41.8 mil
Bectin-Dickinson
CEO:
Edwin Ludwig
2005: 10 mil
5-year:
18 mil
Forest Labs
CEO:
Howard Solomon
2005: 92.1 mil
5-year:
295 mil
Caremark Rx
CEO:
Edwin M Crawford
2005: 77.9 mil
5-year:
93.6 mil
Pfizer
CEO:
Henry McKinnell
2005: 14 mil
5-year:
74 mil

Wyeth
CEO:
Robert Essner
2005:6.5 mil
5-year:
28.9 mil

Humana
CEO:
Michael McAllister
2005:2.3 mil
5-year:
12.9 mil
Amgen
CEO:
Kevin Sharer
2005:5.7 mil
5-year:
59.5 mil
Cigna
CEO:
H. Edward Hanway
2005:13.3 mil
5-year:62.8 mil
United Health Group
CEO:
William W McGuire
2005: 124.8 mil
5-year:
342 mil
Johnson & Johnson
CEO:
William Weldon
2005:6.1 mil
5-year:
19.7 mil
Abbott Lab
CEO:
Miles White
2005: 26.2 mil
5-year:
25.8 mil
Aetna
CEO:
John Rowe
2005: 22.1 mil
5-year:
57.8 mil

TOTAL 2005: 559.8 mil

TOTAL 5-Year: 14.9 billion

CCFTFMCHC