Stacie Ritter lost everything. CIGNA CEO Ed Hanway bought another house

from Healthcare for America Now:




Stacie Ritter lost everything. CIGNA CEO Ed Hanway bought another house.
Posted on October 1st, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Profits Before People


Meet Stacie Ritter. She's a hardworking mother of twins who lives in Pennsylvania.

Her daughters, now 11, were diagnosed with leukemia when they were four. They both needed stem cell transplants and other cancer treatments. The twins survived, but the glands controlling their growth were damaged beyond repair from the treatment. To continue growing, they needed doctor-recommended growth-hormone injections regularly.

Stacie's husband's company switched to CIGNA health insurance, and CIGNA refused to cover the hormone shots. Each time Stacie takes her daughters to the doctor for the shots, it costs her $440. Between the cancer treatment and the denied care, Stacie and her husband had to file for bankruptcy.

Meet Ed Hanway. He's the "hardworking" CEO of CIGNA - a leading health insurance company.

Last year, Hanway made $12.2 million. That's $5,883 an hour, enough to cover 12 of the treatments Stacie's daughters need every hour. He has $28 million in stock options. He owns a beach house in New Jersey worth $13 million, one of many mansions he possesses. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/2009/10/01/stacie-ritter-lost-everything-cigna-ceo-ed-hanway-bought-another-house/

Repulsive, utterly repulsive.

We need more of this sort of comparison. It really makes the point in a way simple statistics can't.

I just don't get it.

Helping people is difficult, costly, depressing and requires empathy.

Welcome to the Repuke mindset, where compassion goes to melt in a hot stenchy lake of stupid.

:sarcasm:

These CEOs feel both safe and unaccountable. That needs to change.

...but only if they have the insurance, available to all Americans, to reattach their heads, if they so choose...

Seriously I hate these greedy fuckers. WTF do they need that many houses for? You can only be one place at one time. :grr:

I pride myself on not hating anyone, but what I'm feeling for these trough feeders is nothing but hate lately.

Of course I'll probably leave the theater wanting to punch a hole in the wall but still...