Perhaps their profits would be greater if their CEOs were not making $20 million per year in salary, and then some. Comparing insurance company profits to a congess member's net worth is odd. It is a man's entire life's work being compared to a years take of corporate profits. Why not compare salary? The CEO of Aetna, for instance, received $24,300,112 last year,
the current salary (2009) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $174,000 per year. Government is not supposed to be "for profit" however, and for that matter, when health insurance first started, insurance companies were not for profit either. Somewhere along the way, things have gotten out of control, price-wise wi...

Perhaps their profits would be greater if their CEOs were not making $20 million per year in salary, and then some. Comparing insurance company profits to a congess member's net worth is odd. It is a man's entire life's work being compared to a years take of corporate profits. Why not compare salary? The CEO of Aetna, for instance, received $24,300,112 last year,
the current salary (2009) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $174,000 per year. Government is not supposed to be "for profit" however, and for that matter, when health insurance first started, insurance companies were not for profit either. Somewhere along the way, things have gotten out of control, price-wise with both the cost of insurance and the cost of procedures and care.

Mostly on the strength of her husband's portfolio of commercial real estate, the Pelosis' net worth is at least $25M and may be as high at $92M -- financial disclosure forms for federal officials report assets and liabilities in broad ranges, so the figure is difficult to pinpoint. The Pelosis own a small office building in San Francisco and another in the suburbs of Marin County, as well as millions of dollars in stock in Microsoft and AT&T, and a minority interest in Piatti Locali, a small chain of Italian restaurants in California.

http://www.nndb.com/people/231/000030141/

#dontgo reports that according to disclosure statements, “in May 2007 she invested in T. Boone Picken’s clea...

Mostly on the strength of her husband's portfolio of commercial real estate, the Pelosis' net worth is at least $25M and may be as high at $92M -- financial disclosure forms for federal officials report assets and liabilities in broad ranges, so the figure is difficult to pinpoint. The Pelosis own a small office building in San Francisco and another in the suburbs of Marin County, as well as millions of dollars in stock in Microsoft and AT&T, and a minority interest in Piatti Locali, a small chain of Italian restaurants in California.

http://www.nndb.com/people/231/000030141/

#dontgo reports that according to disclosure statements, “in May 2007 she invested in T. Boone Picken’s clean energy fuels corp., CLNE, which is the sole sponsor of a proposal in California to funnel $5 billion in state funds and $5 billion in Federal funds to this corporation which will indirectly help them create a giant wind farm in the Texas panhandle.”

Know your eco-cronies.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/11/bosom-buddies-nancy-pelosi-and-big-wind/