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Business Week reports his annual salary as $1,300,000.[4] Forbes Magazine ranks him at 296th in its 2009 Special Report on CEO Compensation.[5] His compensation was estimated at $3,241,042 by the FierceHealthcare newsletter.[6] According to bizjournals.com the country's highest-paid From wikipedia, "CEO, Stephen Hemsley, made $101.96 million in 2010.[7] In 2011 he was named the highest paid CEO by Forbes following a large gain in the value of his stock ownership. [8] In late 2011, Hemsley's most recent annual compensation was estimated by Forbes at $48.8 million."

I'm not defending high CEO salaries, but salaries and compensation are different numbers. Even CEOs that take $1 salary a year, cash in stock options for millions if the corporation does well or improves.



Who does he think he is, Michael Jordan or Oprah? After all, they have so much more responsibility and provide so much more to society.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.