Showing posts with label accountability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accountability. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Accountability from Executives - About Damn Time!

Executives expect to be paid large, even exorbitant salaries in part for the responsibility they have in their jobs.  Yet, they seem to be claiming they shouldn't be held accountable for that very same responsiblity for which they are so well paid.

It's damn well time they stopped having it both ways.  Well done, Obama administration!  Well done!

from the AP:

In Shift, Feds Target Top Execs For Health Fraud

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR 05/31/11 07:40 AM ET

WASHINGTON -- It's getting personal now. In a shift still evolving, federal enforcers are targeting individual executives in health care fraud cases that used to be aimed at impersonal corporations.

The new tactic is raising the anxiety level – and risks – for corporate honchos at drug companies, medical device manufacturers, nursing home chains and other major health care enterprises that deal with Medicare and Medicaid.