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Healthcare Trade Association Ceo payWe know the CEOs of healthcare corporations do really well financially but did you know the CEOs of healthcare trade associations do very well according to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation released today. Trade associations don't make anything that helps the economy grow. Their role is to protect their member's profits by suborning congress.

Nine of 12 health care trade associations paid their CEOs compensation of $1 million or more, including bonuses, deferred compensation and other benefits, according to tax records for 2009.

Billy Tauzin, the former CEO of PhRMA, and former Congressman from Louisiana,  is among those who received a bonus. On top of his base pay of $2.1 million, he was awarded a $2.3 million bonus.

Another key health care player, Scott Serota, CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, earned a bonus of $1.6 million on a base salary of $856,055, and BCBSA chief lobbyist Alissa Fox received a $130,000 bonus plus base pay of $278,760. Chip Kahn, CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, received a base salary of $900,000 and a bonus of $315,000, while Jeff Cohen, one of the group’s top lobbyists, earned $325,000 in base pay and a bonus of $65,000.

Angry enough? Read more: Many CEOs Of Health Industry Groups Earned Big Bonuses

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How much money will the US have to borrow from other countries to finance the Bush tax cuts?... AND, why won't the treasury department reveal how much they will borrow from Middle Eastern countries?

$450 BILLION in lost revenue is what we're talking about here.

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generosity of UI benefitsListening to many Conservatives, one would think that the unemployed are living high on the hog on their unemployment benefits. Forgetting the fact that these benefits are going to disappear in a few days for millions of Americans. The truth is the US of A is the scrooge of the world when it comes to generosity of UI benefits. Check the graph courtesy of the OECD, no liberal organization by any means. And yes that is the good ol USA at the bottom of the list of 29 nations.

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Minimum Wage

Workers in BMW's auto plants in Germany make twice as much as US workers in BMW plants who make $15 an hour. Oh and by the way German workers get 35 days of vacation AND decent healthcare.

And why does Germany's Manufacturers do so well?

BLS Jobless Numbers

  • 12.5 million - unemployed,
  • 14.5%(U6) - out of work,
  • 5.1 million (41%) 6 months or longer,
  • 7.9 million "involuntary" partime workers,
  • Over 4 million for a year, (WSJ)
  • 2.0  million over 99 weeks, the 99ers!
  • 4.7 jobless for every job. EPI
  • 91,000 unemployed become 99ers every week.
~ U.S. April 2012 -Bureau Labor Statistics
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