Our Health Care System Is Working Great...

by Dan Savage...for our nation's top health care CEOs.
The 64 health care CEOs in the S&P 500 cumulatively made almost $1.7 billion in 2017, according to a new Axios analysis of their compensation. That total is 74% higher than the $949 million that is normally highlighted in company proxy documents.
One health care CEO—Neal Patterson, former CEO of Cerner—made (off with) $148.6 million in 2017. Health care companies profit not from providing health care to sick people, but from