Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Workers Scheduled to Strike Next Week

[Ike Bana]

First of all, Kaiser is not-for-profit, so we can't blame this on the gouging of consumers as for profit corporations have been doing for decades. So what's the deal with this strike. The same deal it is with every healthcare organization in this country.

1. The insurance industry in the middle of it, has the cost of healthcare to Americans at twice what it is in most of the EU and Asia.

2. 40 Kaiser executives make over a million bucks a year...

$17,268,060: Gregory Adams, Chairman and CEO
$ 6,674,960: Richard Daniels, EVP, Chief Information Officer
$ 5,580,333: Janet Liang, Regional President, Northern CA
$ 5,086,656: Kathryn Lancaster, EVP and CFO
$ 4,886,355: Arthur Southam, EVP, Health Plan Operations
$ 4,643,773: Julie Miller-Phipps, Region President, Southern CA
$ 4,300,195: Kimberly Horn, EVP, Group President, MOC
$ 3,117,144: Mark Zealman, SVP, General Counsel and Secretary
$ 2,882,881: Anthony Barrueta, SVP, Government Relations
$ 2,557,223: Chuck Bevilacqua, SVP, Health Plan Service and Admin
$ 2,360,352: Wade Overgaard, SVP, Health Plan Ops – CA
$ 2,337,223: Michael Rowe, SVP, Chief Business Development and Strategy Executive
$ 2,009,791: George Disalvo, SVP, CFO Southern CA
$ 2,040,901: Christian Meisner, SVP, Chief HR Officer
$ 2,011,912: Arlene Peasnell, SVP, HR and Labor Relations
$ 1,929,722: Paul Swenson, EVP, Chief Admin Officer
$ 1,892,780: Thomas Meier, SVP, Corporate Treasurer
$ 1,755,834: Laurel Junk, SVP, Enterprise Shared Services
$ 1,748,080: Thomas Henenburg, Interim Regional President – NCA
$ 1,747,910: Roland Lyon, SVP, National Del System Strategy
$ 1,716,511: Jodie Lesh, SVP, Transformation Innovation
$ 1,650,000: Ronald Vance, Interim Regional President, HI
$ 1,639,981: Barbara Choucair, SVP, Chief Health Officer
$ 1,626,427: Chandrika Bhalla, SVP, CFO – NCAL
$ 1,588,985: Yazdı Bagli, EVP, Enterprise Business Services
$ 1,547,147: James Simpson, Region President, GA
$ 1,507,754: Toby Douglas, SVP, National Medicaid Programs
$ 1,485,826: William Caswell, SVP, Operations
$ 1,439,033: Vanessa Benavides, SVP, Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer
$ 1,407,902: Alfonse Upshaw, SVP, Corporate Controller, CAO
$ 1,396,349: Christine Robisch, SVP, Operations – Opt Strategy and Implementation
$ 1,394,044: Mick Diede, SVP, Chief Actuary
$ 1,374,496: Diane Comer, EVP, Chief Info and Tech Officer
$ 1,309,093: Thomas Curtin Jr, SVP, National Sales and Account Management
$ 1,304,370: Christine Paige, SVP, Marketing and Internet Services
$ 1,277,239: Greg Christian, Regional President – HI
$ 1,263,851: Donald Orndoff, SVP, NFS
$ 1,231,601: Patrick Courneya, EVP, Chief Medical Officer
$ 1,171,949: Amarylis Gutierrez, SVP, Chief Pharmacy Officer
$ 1,019,069: John Yamamoto, Assistant Secretary

Of course what we are told is that Kaiser has to pay this kind of money in order to be competitive in the market for Healthcare executives.

WTF???