Aetna

“We created 2000 new millionaires when we sold the company at CVS.”

“Every 50 basis points change in that trend was nine hundred and eighty million dollars of margin.”

“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.”

“Our healthcare costs went down. Not trend. The actual dollar cost went down seven and a half percent the next year.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was at the JP Morgan conference on January first, January second of 2015, and I announced it in front of 240 of our three hundred and forty million shares and said, we're going to do this. I didn't ask the board because they said, well, how did your board le…”

“What we found is that the people in the highest quintile of stress spent 2500 dollars more a year on health care than the average employee. So we put everybody through these programs, we had them journal, and after 12 weeks, heart rate, variability, cortisol l…”

“Let's take all the soft benefits, presenteeism, better attitude at work, empathy for our members. Let's put all those on a page and let's discount them by 90%. And so when we did that, the group that we discounted by 90% added up to the exact same amount of sa…”

“I want to know who these people are. I want to know what their life's like, how much they make, and it was about 12 bucks an hour, and they were, 81% were women, 20% of the kids were on foods, the families were on food stamps, 25% of the kids were on Medicaid …”