Apparently there was a mini-protest in Hartford today. Quoting CTNewsJunkie for the reason:
Aetna announced Thursday that its fourth-quarter profits rose 3 percent and its net income grew to $448.4 million. This is the fifth time protestors stood outside the health care giant’s headquarters to protest its quarterly profits. It began the protests last February.
“You know something is wrong with our health care system when one insurance company’s profits could buy more than five hours of non-stop Super Bowl advertising time, or pay the salaries of the Giants and the Patriots for the past two years,” Jon Green, executive director of the Working Families Party said.
If I were my normal self, I would make comments here about a sad state of affairs when profit deemed evil in and of itself in this country, and of investors needing an expectation of returns on their investment proportionate to the risk they bear….
However, for reasons that will become clear on Monday… for some reason I don’t feel like doing that right now.