Socialist healthcare "horror story"

Some people have had experience no one should have to deal with.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5257491&page=1

The chief executive of health insurer Cigna Corp. received a compensation package worth $22.7 million in 2007, boosted by a big bonus awarded during a year of lackluster stock performance, according to a regulatory filing made late Friday...

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...l?ana=from_rss

The American Medical Assn. and several state medical associations and individual physicians have sued Aetna Health Inc. and CIGNA Corp. in New Jersey federal court alleging the health insurers underpaid physicians for out-of-network medical services.
http://www.businessinsurance.com/cgi...l?newsId=15357

I agree that corporate compensation has gone beyond ridiculous. It's now in ludicrous range, sorta like California home prices. Fortunately, I don't have to try to buy a home for California prices but our healthcare system does lose a lot of buying power because it pays such ridiculous salaries.

I'm not sure of your point about insurance companies not providing healthcare because they are not the doctors, nurses, and aids doing the actual work. By that reasoning there are quite a few hospital employees who are not providing healthcare; billing, President, CEO, managers, facilites, marketing, etc. What insurance companies do is spread the risk. Healthy people paying for the healthcare of those who are ill.