Mark Bertolini
CEO, Oscar Health. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Mark Bertolini is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Oscar Health. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Aetna.
1shows
1appearances
40statements
14resolved
3supported
3contradicted
21%fully supported
Everything Mark Bertolini said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bertolini: Fresenius CEO hand-carried unapproved Austrian drug to save son's life
“It was made by Fresenius. The Fresenius CEO was in Austria. He brought it back with him to Boston. We gave it to my son, and four weeks later his hair started growing back, and his starvation, his albumin went from .2 to four. And he came home, and this was in…”
Bertolini: Salary pays bills, bonus buys baubles, stock is for generational wealth
“Your salary pays for the bills, your bonus pays for the baubles, and your stock is never to be touched. It's part of generational wealth. It's for the future and to help others.”
Bertolini: Two-thirds of Aetna's 652% TSR was driven by P/E multiple expansion
“And at Aetna, when I had 652% total shareholder return over eight years, and we, when we looked at the underlying, only a third of it related to earnings, and two thirds of it related to the price earnings multiple.”
Bertolini: Aetna's sale to CVS created 2,000 new employee millionaires
“We created 2000 new millionaires when we sold the company at CVS.”
Bertolini: Dalai Lama advises compassion for frightening people, but physically running away
“In your heart, you need to find compassion for the journey they're on because everyone has their own journey in life, but physically run.”
Bertolini: Aetna was losing $1M per day when he joined
“Aetna hired me after they started, ran into trouble to help them fix the company. They were losing a million dollars a day when I showed up in twenty-twenty-two and we had to fix that, and that took a, took us on a whole journey.”
Bertolini: Small group employers faced double-digit rate hikes for five years
“Five years running, small group employers have been paying double-digit rate increases.”
Bertolini: Oscar Health covers about 2 million ACA members
“We currently cover about two million lives. And they're all ACA members affordable care act.”
Bertolini: Controlling diabetes reduces monthly healthcare costs from $1,600 to $900
“An uncontrolled diabetic costs about 1600 dollars a month. A controlled diabetic can get down to 900 dollars a month, a 700 dollar opportunity.”
Bertolini: Only 34 men had ever been diagnosed with son's rare lymphoma
“My son had T cell gamma delta lymphoma. Only 34 people, all men had ever been diagnosed with it. He was the youngest at 16, and it had a six month end date.”
Bertolini donated his left kidney to his son after cancer treatment
“His kidneys were damaged. So, he got my left kidney two years later, because I had the best match for a kidney, and they did it laparoscopically.”
Bertolini: Every 50 basis point change in Aetna claims reserve was $980M
“Every 50 basis points change in that trend was nine hundred and eighty million dollars of margin.”
Bertolini: Aetna stock rose from $9 to $208 during CEO tenure
“So when I left out and I had three million shares of stock, I never touched them. And I didn't expect it to ever be at 208 dollars a share, because I took over, it was nine dollars a share.”
Bertolini: Donates $12M to $15M annually via Anahata foundation
“The vast majority of it went into a foundation called Anahata, which is the heart chakra and yoga, where I joyfully help food banks. I do environment education and community sustainability, and I give away close to 12 to fifteen million dollars a year doing th…”
Bertolini Recounts Near-Fatal Skiing Accident and Five-Day Coma
“Skiing one day and had gone into the woods and caught an edge looking over my shoulder and hit a tree, broke my neck, and slid 60 feet headfirst down into a river in a coma. I broke five of my vertebrae macerated my brachoplexus, disconnected my nerve root fro…”
Bertolini uses photographic memory to instantly spot altered spreadsheet cells
“When people hand me spreadsheets, I remember them, and when the cell changes, and I view myself as a forensic scientist looking at spreadsheets to see which cells were changed in order to make the numbers work. Yeah, and I can see it. So it actually glows on t…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Mark's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 INVEST LIKE THE BESTLEDGER | CEO, Oscar Health | 1 | 40 | 21% 3/14 | full record on Invest Like the Best → |