Oh my goodness this is possibly the dumbest thing I've seen posted on here. For a whopping $48 PER YEAR I am saving myself hundreds if not thousands of dollars in medical treatment for blood clots (since for whatever reason I tend to get clots). Not to mention saving myself stress and anxiety and just the pain of having to recover from more clots!

People who take coumadin aren't really on it for fun. We'd all prefer not to take it, but it's SAVING OUR LIVES. And honestly, that's a pretty fantastic bargain if you ask me.

Honestly I do hate pharmaceuticals and the companies that push them (though I have just about as high an opinion of vitamin and supplement companies), but there are a whole lot more evil and expensive medications which are taken unnecessarily - go pick on those.

Doesn't bother me one bit this guy is well compensated. If you want to be a CEO and make big bucks, be a CEO. If you don't want to, then don't. But that doesn't mean he can't.

Frankly, most anything you purchase is making someone rich somewhere.

It's a 5.2 BILLION dollar corporation. I can't imagine what it takes to run a company like that.

It's so true, Chris. I know it's easy to sit back and get all indignant about CEO salaries but when you realize the level of intelligence, creativity and fortitude required to oversee a large corporation where you are ultimately held responsible for customers, employees, shareholders and the bottom line, it's remarkable really.

How much is your life worth?

His company helps keep people alive and I hope we're paying him well to do it.

I don't begrudge him. I wouldn't want his job and he probably wouldn't want mine either.

Of course, I take the generic, so I'm not really helping pay his paycheck either.

And what's the alternative... that we NOT buy coumadin solely so this guy doesn't make money. I guess I'm unclear on the point of the post actually. Is it to be angry at CEOs for being rich, or is it to boycott meds that make CEOs rich. I think it's common knowledge that CEOs in general get paid a lot of money.

It's heartening to see such support for CEO's.

The blanket endorsement of ALL CEO's, though, seems a bit lacking in hindsight. (grin)

As an aside, I've always wondered about Presidents and CEO's of companies that generate billions of dollars in revenue (esp. those that make life-saving drugs and devices!) that seem to either have no control or are oblivious to what shoddy and shady practices people supposedly 'under their control' are up to.

Still talking about Bristol Meyer (as just one example) ---that company was involved in several 'scandals' . (Andreotti wasn't at BMS then).

But there WERE Presidents and CEO's then. Just not Andreotti. And they were making the big bucks.

I hope that Andreotti can steer a clear course for BMS in the future.

It's not that I'm all pro CEOs. It's more that I'm not anti CEO just because they make a lot of money. Like I said, I wasn't clear on the point of the post.

**** I'm not anti CEO just because they make a lot of money***

Neither am I. I wouldn't be a CEO even if I could be! Because the 'buck stops there' and they ARE ultimately responsible for what occurs on their watch---- because of those bucks.

There ARE a lot of honest hardworking CEO's. I don't begrudge them their 'salaries'. (And a check of other CEO's 'salaries' will show that Andreotti is among the lowest salary of the Top Ten drug manufacturer CEOs.)

But I still find it interesting and a bit strange, as I posted above, that a CEO (NOT Andreotti at this point) doesn't know what goes on in his company. If I were rich---- and I hired someone to look after my money/business---- I'd sure put him on a short leash!

Oh, and BTW----- I will continue to add to Mr. Andreotti's coffers by buying Coumadin. It's droll that some think I was dissing the use of Coumadin. (grin)

The "blanket endorsement of ALL CEOs"? Could you point me to where that occurred? Hyperbole much?

And even if that was written, would that be better or worse than the unfounded implication that this CEO is somehow inept, on the take, or otherwise doesn't deserve the compensation package that BMS board approved?

Simply saying someone make "X" amount of money without any context doesn't really say anything.

***Simply saying someone make "X" amount of money without any context doesn't really say anything.***

That's true. But other people did have a lot to say. (grin)

I wonder why you sometimes (it appears) deliberetly set out to wind people up?
I find you interesting, you can seem so compassionate and supportive and at other times such a sh#tstirer.. I get that you were proably just making a sarcastic humourous post, it just seems a little off though, espcially for new people who , as you know are really going through some scarey , confusing times...your sense of humour ( and I am just assuming that it's your sense of humour)may not be coming across the way you mean it too?
Just my two cents worth :)

I do find it hard to believe that knowing what a CEO makes would scare new people.

It's the way it reads,,,it comes across the wrong way...it is hard to decipher a tone or humour etc on the computer,,speaking for myself, I read it as sarcastic but i can tell you if I was just new to this site some of your posts would scare the hell out of me!Maybe a disclaimer on your posts..something like "I have be known to have a sarcastic sense of humour..lol)
I'm not having a go at you, just sometimes things can be misunderstood very easily over the internet :)

I found the information at the URL that was provided to be quite interesting. Since I had some extra time I researched some of the drugs that the company has enjoyed high profits from. Again, interesting.