We’re just lining insurers’ pockets

For-profit health care corporations CEOs’ yearly salaries include, among others: Humana ($15.6 million), HCA ($23.7 million), UnitedHealthcare ($26 million), Kaiser ($13.8 million) and Well Care ($12.7million).

Do you want your monthly health care premiums to pay for exorbitant salaries or for actual health care?

The United States spends approximately 17% of its gross national product on health care, while other industrialized countries spend 9-12% and live an average of two years longer. In the U.S., 75% of bankruptcies are due to medical debts; in countries with universal health care, there is no medical debt.

Universal health care has been debated over 40 years but is never voted on because our legislators from both major political parties accept campaign donations from the for-profi