To check Mr Baker's contribution to the "medical expense trend," I found Harvard Pilgrim's 990 forms, which are available on the Guidestar web site.
( Harvard Pilgrim is a not-for-profit organization. All such organizations with revenues greater than $25,000 must file annual disclosure forms with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). These must list compensation paid to their most highly paid employees. Guidestar maintains an on-line library of these forms, updated at least through 2003.)
Harvard Pilgrim's 2003 990 form showed that Mr Baker's total compensation was $1,045,336.
Maybe Mr Baker has more than an arm around "the medical expense trend."
Do I detect a whiff of hypocrisy here? By what moral authority does Mr Baker get to lecture employees about their responsibility for medical costs while he gets more than one million a year as the CEO of a not-for-profit one of whose ostensible goals is to control health care costs?
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