Anger Over Salaries of Health Care Execs

The Times’ article revealed that five top executives at National Medical Enterprises earned a total of $35.5 million dollars in 1991.

If they had been paid what the average physician in California earns, about $150,000, the excess of about $34.75 million could have been spent on patient care. Even at an inflated figure of $100 per office visit, 34,750 people could have received medical in-patient care.

NME is only one health care firm. If the profits of all the medical entrepreneurs nationwide were revealed, we would see the true cause of the health care cost problem.

Let those premium dollars be spent on patient care and two benefits could accrue. Medical costs would drop, and the quality of care would improve.

ROBERT M. MILLER

West Hills