Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

rjs is more concerned with accuracy than he is with niceties.

[ATV]

2008 salaries for the CEOs of the top ten health insurance companies. Of course this only represents the very top of very large barrel.

Ron Williams - Aetna - Total Compensation: $24,300,112.
H. Edward Hanway - CIGNA - Total Compensation: $12,236,740.
Angela Braly - WellPoint - Total Compensation: $9,844,212.
Dale Wolf - Coventry Health Care - Total Compensation: $9,047,469.
Michael Neidorff - Centene - Total Compensation: $8,774,483.
James Carlson - AMERIGROUP - Total Compensation: $5,292,546.
Michael McCallister - Humana - Total Compensation: $4,764,309.
Jay Gellert - Health Net - Total Compensation: $4,425,355.
Richard Barasch - Universal American - Total Compensation: $3,503,702.
Stephen Hemsley - UnitedHealth Group - Total Compensation: $3,241,042.

Cha-ching.

[Geowhizzer]

I wonder what the top 10 teacher salaries are...

[Sgt PSN]

$12
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$3.50

[Rome]

Yeah, there's no problem with the American health care industry.  None at all.

[Diomedes]

What, you dont' think Ron Williams earns every penny of that twenty four million per year?  He works so much harder than you, he's so much smarter, he's worth it.   Only a commie could have a problem with successful people being rewarded.

[phillymic2000]

Yeah, there's no problem with the American health care industry.  None at all.

there is a problem with the healthcare system, there is also a problem with the education system also. i work in it, and it takes teachers doing something illegal to  get some of these good for nothing twits fired. the starting pay sucks, but that is voted on by the Teachers union at contract time. Should we have the new teachers make more then 30k or should we fatten our retirement by another fargin 5%. Betcha 10000000000000000 bazillion dollars 99% of the unions vote on the 5% and farg the new comer. I got slugs in my district that shouldn't make 10$ an hour but are retiring making over 100k at the age of 55. and you want to see a joke look at superintendants, who can retire in one state pulling a full pension and work in another making full salary. The world ain't fair by any means.

[Sgt PSN]

everyone knows that teachers are underpaid.  and the reason why there are so many bad teachers is because no sane person wants to spend 8 hours a day trying to teach someone else's douchebag kids how to prepare themselves for life. 

healthcare on the other hand, the fact that some dickwad is collecting 24mil a year to run a company that constantly declines to provide the service they advertise to their customers is farging ludacris. 

[Butchers Bill]

everyone knows that teachers are underpaid. 

Not in NJ they aren't, and few other states as well.  I cannot think of another profession where after 10 years (and no additional education) you can make 60-70k for 9 months of work.   

and the reason why there are so many bad teachers is because no sane person wants to spend 8 hours a day trying to teach someone else's douchebag kids how to prepare themselves for life. 

Another reason there are bad teachers is that after they achieve tenure, they would have to molest a kid to get fired.  There is no incentive for performance as they get paid the same regardless of how they or their students perform.

[Sgt PSN]

teachers make more in jersey because they're all special needs children. 

[Geowhizzer]

I've got to move back north.  I could make a hellua lot more money there.

[rjs246]

there is also a problem with the education system also.

everyone knows that teachers are underpaid.  

Not in NJ they aren't, and few other states as well.  I cannot think of another profession where after 10 years (and no additional education) you can make 60-70k for 9 months of work.  

You seem to think that is a lot of money. These people have the most important jobs in the country and they make less than I do. My job doesn't accomplish shtein other than to make rich investment bankers slightly more rich.

60-70 grand, after a decade of work and most likely a Masters in Education, for our most important employees? Makes my farging ass twitch.

[ice grillin you]

seriously where outside of MA is 60-70k a lot of money...especially for a job as important as teaching

[phillymic2000]

everyone knows that teachers are underpaid.  and the reason why there are so many bad teachers is because no sane person wants to spend 8 hours a day trying to teach someone else's douchebag kids how to prepare themselves for life.  

Work 180 days a year   get 2 weeks at christmas a week in the sping , every fargin holiday known to man how many people know what Pulaski day is , 11 weeks off in a fargin row in the summer have to as bill said molest a student to get in trouble probably father a child with said student to get fired retire after 32 years at 75 to 80% of your pay oh yeah get extra cash called a stipend for, hallway monitor (which happens while your getting paid already), any kind of coaching, lunch duty, bus duty, in school suspension duty, after school suspension, saturday school, free trips in the U.S.A and over seas as long as you "monitor" students, oh wait, more cash to help at football, baseball, basketball, wrestling, volleyball, FFA, soccer, softball, cheerleading, dance or anyother fargin activity that would distrub your normal "8" hour day. what a fargin life...

[phillymic2000]

seriously where outside of MA is 60-70k a lot of money...especially for a job as important as teaching

If it was that serious of a job, don't you think they would have higher standards?