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Senators ponder varied tax increases, including non-profit hospital tax
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It seems from your Special Report, posted just prior to this one, that there is an ample amount of money to be captured by the government to help health care costs. Congress just refuses to look in the right places. How can we rationalize obscene compensation by executives at the top of the insurance industry food chain, while at the same time contemplate taxes that will ultimately effect those at the delivering and receiving end of healthcare? This contradiction needs to be shouted from the mountaintops!
On May 19, Anonymous asked "How can we rationalize obscene compensation by executives at the top of the insurance industry food chain, while at the same time contemplate taxes that will ultimately effect those at the delivering and receiving end of healthcare? "
The answer seems obvious: the top feeders have the money to buy the congress and call the shots (read a
*Special Report: CEO Compensation, Forbes.com, April 30, 2008: (www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/ceo-paycompensation-
lead-bestbosses08-cx-sd_0430ceo_land.html)
Sucks, doesn't it?





