If you made it through the headline without bile rising in your throat, you’ve already done better than me.
Just a short post today, pros, because I’ll need to spend some serious meditation time getting over news I read this morning from Health Care for America Now that shows last year (deep cleansing breath) executives and shareholders of the five largest health insurers – Aetna, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealth and WellPoint – posted combined profits of $12.2 billion, up 56% from 2008. Cigna was particularly flush, with profit increases of 346%!
