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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Insurance executives make too much money. Not doctors. [/quote]

Even if that’s morally true it’s not an explanation for systemic costs. One CEO making too much is a drop in the bucket relative to hundreds of thousands of doctors making much more than European/Canadian/Australian doctors. [/quote]

It's not once CEO, OP.  Each insurance company has multiple subsidiaries--for "utilization management" (Maximizing denials), pharmacy benefits managers, etc. And each of these has dozens of executives with email jobs, many making 7-8 figure salaries.. And of course, each of these insurance companies pays out huge $$$ to PR shills and lobbyists to keep the racket going.

No wonder the government is cracking down on this fraud. [/quote]

I’m all for getting rid of insurance companies and going single-payer, but executive pay isn't much of an issue. There are about 1,000 doctors per health insurance executive.[/quote]

That dog wom’t hunt. The insirance executives are pure parasites who make an order of magnitude more $$$ than internists and family med doctors.  [/quote]

Those aren't the doctors who are grossly overpaid.

And there are very few insurance executives. You can't seem to see the forest for the trees.[/quote]

So your argument is that, yes, insurance executives are parasites, but at least there are fewer of them than doctors. Ok then.

Let's try this again: insurance executives make an order of magnitude more than the anesthesiologists you hope to eliminate. And unlike those insurance executives, anesthesiologists contribute massively to patient safety. [/quote]

No one said to eliminate anesthesiologists. We just don't need as many of them if we stop involving them when they're unnecessary.

I'd love to get rid of insurance executives, but that's only going to happen when we get rid of insurance. Which, by the way, would almost certainly also result in a pay cut for anesthesiologists. They might only be able to afford a single beach house in addition to their mansion primary home.[/quote]

How rich , exactly, do you think anesthesiologists are? Your premise is false. No one is buying a mansion in the SC area and multiple vacation homes on a 500k salary. Especially not with all those student loans. [/quote]

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