Reply #10: Union members are crooks? [View All]

Unions try to develop health plans for their members, who often have nobody else on their side, and they're crooks? Meanwhile, the insurance execs have average salaries of in excess of a million pesos?

Any time you have a lot of money you're going to have some crooks, but for my money the unions by and large have done well by their members. I don't think the same can be said for the health insurance industry, whose profits by the way from 2001 to about 2007 increased 400%. The salaries of their execs I'm sure did not suffer during that period.

You would claim that the salaries of union execs match those of the insurance industry and that these salaries have increased at the same rate?

I'd have to see the figures.