So you're a wealthy health insurance CFO, and you're considered "one of corporate America's most admired executives":
It was [David] Colby who helped put together the $16.4 billion deal that created Indianapolis-based WellPoint in 2004. He was named best CFO in managed care for four years in a row by Institutional Investor magazine. Stockholders and Wall Street professionals saw the Columbia University graduate as someone who "gave it to you straight," said stock analyst Thomas Carroll. -- AP article
What better way to enjoy your hard-earned cash than to travel around the country wooing dozens of women, giving them STDs, and promising mansions and private schooling for their kids?
I know if I was a sketchy, homely guy with oodles of cash (he "made" over $700,000 in salary and "received" a $1.1 million bonus in 2006), I'd run around the country proposing to 12 women since 2005 and dating 30 women in the last half of 2007, courting them with romantic text messages like "You forever!" and "I chose you! Goodnight!", gifting them with jewelry, trips, and $100,000 payouts when they finally discovered I was still married, and after reneging on promises of brain surgery for their epilectic children, finding out they are pregnant and frantically texting "ABORT!!" before setting off in a shiny jet to infect more lucky ladies with herpes and chlamydia. But that's just me.
Unfortunately, the filing of lawsuits by some of these ungrateful women prompted Wellpoint to oust Colby from his cushy job, although they offset his distress with a $666,190 severance.
So, the next time you wonder about why your claim for cancer screening was denied, or how a life-saving kidney tranplant was rejected for a teenaged girl, just remember, it's admired executives like David Colby who run the corporate arbiters of life and death in this country.