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WellPoint's Former Manager-Queen Got $20.6 Million and Its Nobility Got Millions
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9:29 AM
Score another for our new would be royalty, that is, for the hired managers who run big corporations. Early this month a few scattered repo...
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Duchess of WellPoint Abdicates, Likely to Escape with Much Loot
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11:41 AM
A change in the leadership of one of the biggest health care organizations reveals a little more about how such leadership has become our ne...
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Huge Insurance Company WellPoint Settles Once Again, Providing a Window On the Ethical Questions Its Birth Presented
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9:45 AM
Another month, another question about the ethical conduct of for-profit insurance giant WellPoint. WellPoint Settles Allegations its Predec...
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legal settlements
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Wall Street Journal Defends Hired WellPoint Executives' Lack of Accountability to the Company's Owners
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1:29 PM
The lack of accountability of the hired managers (or executives or bureaucrats) of health care organizations came into sharper focus thanks ...
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Some of WellPoint's Owners (Stockholders) Allege Their Hired Executives Hid Political Contributions
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1:41 PM
We have frequently had reason to question the actions of WellPoint, the second largest for-profit health insurance company/ managed care org...
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