Today is Saturday. March 26, 2013 (the day after my colonoscopy). My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes on the ball and 45 minutes of walking = 2.5 miles for a March total of 33.0 miles. My weight was 161.8 pounds. (Yesterday morning I weighed 159 pounds after cleaning myself out the night before - I guess I was full of 3.2 pounds of s_ _ _ .
QUOTE from Jim Doyne: "A conviction is that commendable quality in ourselves that we call bullheadedness in others."
My THOUGHTS today are back to the American medical system. When reading the article about the American medical system I was shocked at the salaries of nonprofit hospital administrators. Here are some examples of CEO salaries.
- $5,975,462 - U. of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
- $2,564,214 - Cleveland Clinic.
- $2,335,882 - Barnes-Jewish Hospital. St. Louis.
- $4,356,039 - Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York.
- $2,080,779 - Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis.
- $2,925,356 - Florida Hospital in Orlando.
- $2,244,110 - Orlando Regional Medical Center.
- $4,065,194 - Montefiore Medical Center-Moses Division Hospital, Bronx.
- $2,180,962 - Methodist University Hospital, Memphis.
- $2,206,401 - Norton Hospital, Louisville, Ky.
- $1,800,000 - Stamford Hospital in Conn.
- $2,500,000 - Yale New Haven Health System.
Here are other examples of administrative salaries - not just CEOs.
-At Sloan-Kettering in N.Y. there are 14 administrators paid over $500,000 a year, including six who make over $1 million.
- $3,243,000 - chief financial officer at Montefiore and $2,220,000 for the executive vice-president.
- Seven executives were paid more than $1 million each at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City.
ARE THESE HUMUNGEOUS SALARIES REALLY NECESSARY? CAN'T PEOPLE LIVE COMFORTABLY ON $500,000? I THINK SO.
As the author said, "Health care is eating away at our economy and our treasury.
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