5 min reading time

Three bullet points:
• CEO previously said, company was “in a very good place to make this a sustainable program.” http://ow.ly/XEzL303rEKv
• This is a response to Humana merger ligitation: http://ow.ly/q1J2303rEG2
• Aetna CEO Received $27.9M In 2015 Compensation: http://ow.ly/75Pm303rELT

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Michelle Springhorn Kingsbury
Transportation Supply Chain Logistics provider of innovative shipping solutions
We need a single payer public option.. every other sane country in the world has it it is quite simple and effective..Healthcare should be a basic right.. if you want premium products you can pay extra.. big problem is we built an insurance industry that now employs so many it’s almost too big to fail.. and you are right Joe this is Aetna pay back for not allowing the merger, blackmail.. hard to cry any tears for all the millions he’s being paid and the billion his company has made as a result of enjoying increased business from Obamacare… Let’s fix Obamacare and leave Aetna in the dust.

Beth L Wilson
Northface Merchandising Associate at Macy’s
Bullies need to get what they deserve. Karma it’s coming.

Beth L Wilson
Northface Merchandising Associate at Macy’s
What to do two parents out of jobs care $620 a month or starve the family I’ll feed my kids and keep a roof over head. Employers stop black balling your older workers. Wait your day of karma is coming. No one has compassion any longer it’s how many lives can I ruin before I retire!

Julie Omohundro
Principal Consultant at Class Three, LLC
Amy, who is the middle man?

Amy Van Schijndel, M.A. Business Mgmt.
Award Winning Sales Manager, Passionate Activist & Happiness Consultant
Get rid of the middle man…crooked thieves.

David Gomez
Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), CEO/CTO of Infinitus Medical Technologies (iMT), and Patient Positioning Process Ninja!
Problem is Anthony, no matter who it involves, even consumers, no one ever wants to feel the pain for the things we should do. That’s the problem a very fortunate society has. There are better ways, and some sadly would rely on the government, but it would be in novel ways that allowed the system to restore it’s balance. Nothing is for free, or even completely discounted, but it can be more affordable. It’s sad that out of the 537 people we have running the entire country, none of them can offer a common sense approach to care. I guess its the millions of people (lobbyists), oh wait I meant dollars, that keep the system the way it is. The only solace is that we ALL GET SICK, and sooner or later we will ALL BE IN THE SAME BOAT.

Madris Tomes, MBA
Founder and CEO at Device Events / Medical Device Post-market Surveillance and UDI Expert
Until we stop paying for 56 claims systems, 56 provider enrollment systems, and licensing boards in every state we will continue to hemorrhage money. Reducing fraud by tens of billions of dollars per year is just what the criminals want. Let’s streamline our systems so we can put our tax dollars either to good use or back in our pockets. Single payer isn’t socialism…it’s good business. And as far as Aetna goes…I’m happy to take my business elsewhere and call their bluff.

Anthony Zelinko
CEO/Owner Bonte’ Medical Supplies, Inventor, Polymath, Visionary
Joe, Aetna just put another nail in the coffin.
What everyone seems to forget here is the fact that in all most all facets of medically related costs they were on a slope that was unsustainable. This has gone on for more than two decades. Hillary had a chance early on to address these issues prior to Obamacare. in both cases the ie. Hillary care and Obamacare never reigned in costs or changed the profit margins and incentives for the big players like the insurance industry or Big Pharma. Why ? You don’t kill the Golden Goose. Those industries are major supporters to political positions and they won’t be touched.
If someone really wanted to put forth a realistic approach to solving our healthcare crisis. All major players would have to feel some pain, sorry for the pun. All the players would have to give up some profit margin, but as we see the insurance companies who were subsidized to be part of the dysfunctional Obamacare want their cake and eat it too.
You can’t have it both ways.

Cathie Stujenske
Quality Supervisor at Red Dot Corporation
The figures you posted Mr. Guyton are alarming.

Robert J. Guyton Jr.
Owner Manifest Medical
The pharmaceutical company that cornered the market on the life-saving EpiPen and dramatically increased its price also jacked up the pay of top executives.

Between 2007, when Mylan acquired the patent for the EpiPen, to 2015, the wholesale price had skyrocketed from $56.64 to $317.82 — a price increase of 461 percent. Similarly, compensation for Mylan CEO Heather Bresch increased astronomically over the same time period. According to NBC News, Bresch went from making $2.453,456 in 2007 to $18,931,068 in 2015, amounting to a 671 percent raise over eight years.

Richard Gibbs
Epic Interface Analyst / Software Engineer
If your company uses Aetna, push them to drop them from. This company should not be trusted.

David Gomez
Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), CEO/CTO of Infinitus Medical Technologies (iMT), and Patient Positioning Process Ninja!
Look folks it’s a simple understanding of math and business. Why would a business look to charge a premium an X and then pay out a potential 50-100x per patient. That’s not a sustainable business model. We should find ways to improve overall costs so that it can be managed by those who can manage financially. It seems all we are paying for is the ability for insurance companies to NEGOTIATE prices relating to services. If that the case, we should not be paying for non premium plans. As a care provider I had great insurance plans through my providers, and some not that great. I used to like high deductible plans, but they soon screwed that up. Now that I am a small business owner and on a shitty exchange plan, I can see where the system is truly broken. They never informed the public the reality of deductibles and or bad coverage. My exchange plan didn’t even pay for child immunizations (a state law mind ya).

Robert J. Guyton Jr.
Owner Manifest Medical
When the rest of the world is providing a minimal level of healthcare for all of their folks, in all cases cheaper than we are, with many having superior outcomes: ie morbidity and mortality, maybe we could learn something from them… Private direct pay is fantastic for 1% of the population of the United States… For the other 99% a public option is the solution to runaway unregulated heathcare cost inflation.. Cost of life saving epipen goes up 400% in 7 years-inflation rate over that period has been sub 2% per year… Criminal

Jon Gardner
Technology Consultant
The only truly viable solution is found at the local level, where relationship happens. Charity can only occur between people, who agree to care for, and be accountable to, one another. This cannot be accomplished legislatively without incurring massive fraud and waste. The church once filled this role (and in many places still does), because the gospel of Jesus is rooted in that type of sacrificial interpersonal relationship. Legislative welfare efforts will always fail, because they do not address the fundamental question: “Why should I even care about my neighbor?”

Margee Moore
I help mid-sized American companies leverage digital marketing. Openings for 1-2 clients who are ready to grow in 2019
Private direct pay seems like an option too.

Robert J. Guyton Jr.
Owner Manifest Medical
Public option is coming, there is no other viable solution…

Julie Omohundro
Principal Consultant at Class Three, LLC
David, I would guess that that the threats now after everyone has already done it mean someone wants people to know now, where they didn’t before. Why, I couldn’t tell you, but…there is a major election coming up in a few months, so perhaps that has something to do with it.

Julie Omohundro
Principal Consultant at Class Three, LLC
Michael, I’m inclined to think that, if you follow the trail of breadcrumbs back a few decades, you may find this represents more of a failure of capitalism than socialism. This isn’t something that started with the Obama presidency; more like the end game in a very long downward spiral.

Michael Todd
Sr. Retina Territory Manager at BVI Medical
Socialism doesn’t work! Failed presidency.