Interviewer: it seems that the newspapers are covering cult cave than more the cause. You heard an article, which is a little bit disturbing. Some merge of a couple of insurance companies in New York HIP and GHI. Any article employed. He was a teacher, your premiums go up, and he cannot understand why. What is your thought about this?
Male: Well, the supposedly merging under new company called emblem health. Some of this services have been made available now on the plans called family health plus and child health plus. As a non-profit company, they are limited to the amount of the administrative expenses. But if emblem health goes through walled away, they’ll be comy public company traded on the stock market. As such, they are profit-oriented company. And as such, there administrative expenses are no longer controlled. So now…
Interviewer: Well, that may not accurate. Maybe in lowest particular programs. Child health plus and family health are of state’s sponsored programs. So that portion might be controlled, but the one you’re interested in is one that your union and the city participate to give you out cash, it is true?
Male: Yes, they participated in GHI, and in HIP.
Interviewer: Look, I got a question. Everything is going up, and so as health care, but the one-year that does not go out, they will pay the doctors anymore. They tried a little gimmick a couple of years ago, they raise the call pays.
Male: Yes.
Interviewer: Since you are the doctors, you are getting paid more. But away, you know that if the call pays are high, you see less patients, cause patients think twice about coming, even if it’s a properly indicated visit. You understand the principle.
Male: Yes. Yes.
Interviewer: So they did not really give you anything. They made it cost even more to you. So they actually made the cost all here go up, not go down. Now, you are not looking to go the exact for little my illness looking for a nature problem, something would be very costly. You have any ideas where the money is going.
Male: Well, for example, previously the CEO is making 2 million dollars a year under emblem health is now making 15 million dollars a year.
Interviewer: A what? Excuse me?
Male: Yes, because the administrative cost have now been unregulated.
Interviewer: You saw it through your eyes. I mean you correct.
Male: 15 million.
Interviewer: CEO?
Male: Yes.
Interviewer: Are you sure?
Male: It says so in the newspaper.
Interviewer: Wait a minute. I am the pediatrician; I get 11 dollars a month on limited visit in some of the age you must have taken care of children. The older kids sometime have little seven dollars a month and yet you are telling this guy is walking with that kind of money? It hard for me to believe, in this economical lines of people maybe losing homes because of mortgage rates that are sky rocketed, bad loans, they get same figure like I maybe you read it once?
Male: No, this is what happens in the business world.
Interviewer: But what has he done to earn that kind of money?
Male: I cannot say it well now; he is involved with running both HIP and GHI. But is it 7x the work? I do not know, he is getting 7x the salary.
Interviewer: He told that onto you.
Male: Look seems that way.
Interviewer: So in other words, there has got to be some solutions.
Male: Someway hopefully.
Interview: Which we will have a little discussion on the next segments on solution.
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