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Aetna CEO Set to Reap About $500M If CVS Deal Closes

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Re: Aetna CEO Set to Reap About $500M If CVS Deal Closes

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Give him some tax cuts to go with it

Republican tax cuts are targeting small businesses and the middle class. Nice try

I know this is off topic from this thread, but I’m honestly curious as to why you think this. What evidence exists to support your statement?

Normally, I would just assume this type of comment is simply trolling, but I looked at your profile and it seems you are a real person with generally intelligent comments so now I’m curious.

Re: Aetna CEO Set to Reap About $500M If CVS Deal Closes

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Well, he led the company while its value went from $10 billion to $69 billion in 7 years. Doesn't seem ridiculous.

Yes it does.

Aetna employees almost 50,000 people.

Aetna owes some success to their CEO. They owe most of their success to their employees.

Re: Aetna CEO Set to Reap About $500M If CVS Deal Closes

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Is there a non-pay-walled site to read the whole article?

Create a shortcut with this as url (or simply paste it in your address bar):

  javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);

Re: Aetna CEO Set to Reap About $500M If CVS Deal Closes

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Whatever your politics that $500 million comes from profit in healthcare. Aetna has an economic incentive to denvy as much care as they can. That $500 million to one person is part of the overall cost of healthcare in the U.S. Is this really money well spent on healthcare?

Just like every insurance company?

Part of that is from the value of his stock increasing but nonetheless even if it was all from the exit why not if they think they got value for their money?

Re: Aetna CEO Set to Reap About $500M If CVS Deal Closes

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Whatever your politics that $500 million comes from profit in healthcare. Aetna has an economic incentive to denvy as much care as they can. That $500 million to one person is part of the overall cost of healthcare in the U.S. Is this really money well spent on healthcare?

More importantly, that 500M was money siphoned away from healing people. This is a share of the reward in not healing the sick.
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