October 18, 2004

Someone's getting rich off healthcare

Third quarter earnings for UnitedHealth Group increased 47% from a year ago, up to $698 milllion.

In 2003, UnitedHealth CEO William McGuire received over $94 million in total compensation, ten times what he netted the year before.

Posted by schwitz at October 18, 2004 03:55 PM
Comments

Gary,

This is very shocking especially since everyone is supposed to be worried about health costs. I hope I'll be able to localize this at the paper that I work at.

Best,
Anna

Posted by: Anna Nguyen at October 18, 2004 05:16 PM
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