Yesterday we learned that Florida Blue donated $25,000 to support Great Start…Pathways to Success.
“Great Start” Pathways to Success is the program designed to reach out to parents of newborn babies in Seminole County. They promote parent education and helps parents “build their capacity” to develop essential early literacy skills in their children.
Which brings us back to the sniveling chump change of a donation made by Florida Blue
For all their talk about ‘helping people and communities achieve better health;, yada, yada, yada, in 2014, compensation for Florida Blue CEO Patrick Geraghty, was $7.3 million.
Thats a monthly salary of $608,000. back where I come from.
But, just in case you’re bad with math, it works out to $152,083 a week, or roughly $30k a day.
Now, I’m sure Mr. Geraghty’s a nice fella and all, and that he earns every bit of his $3800. an hour pay check. And before you jump to conclusions about the Florida Blue CEO, 2014 wasn’t exactly a great year because he earned $500k less that he did in 2013, after earning a measly $6.8 million in 2012.
Are you kidding me Mr. Geraghty?
How about donating a weeks pay or two to the folks at Great Start? Do you know or even care about these kids? What are they supposed to with $25,000? Thats 7 hours on the clock for you sir.
In 2014 there were approximately 21,000 children under 5 in Seminole County. Florida Blue claims that, “Education and literacy are crucial to the future health of a child and a community. We’re proud to support Great Start to encourage parental education and help instill the importance of early literacy skills,”.
Huh?
WTF?
The folks at Great Start are in the trenches dealing with the carnage of Central Florida’s “shit-pay” economy that your company helps to create.
Great Start’s participating parents receive a gift bag in the hospital which contains books, a developmental milestone calendar, a resource directory, and other helpful information. Great Start promotes parent education and helps parents develop essential early literacy skills in their children. Various playgroups are offered throughout the year at the Educational Support Center, The Health Department, The Early Learning Center in Sanford, and the Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Sanford and Oviedo.
You can do better than $25,000 Florida Blue. You know you can but you probably won’t.
You won’t because you don’t really mean it when you say that, Florida Blue is “Driven by its mission to help people and communities achieve better health”. You won’t because you really don’t give a two hoots that food pantries in Seminole County run out of food for these families that you’re ‘driven’ by every week.
Ask Judie Kellogg from Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida if $25k will make difference for toddlers under 5 who rather eat than look at more Florida Blue promotional materials.
How many more times does 60 Minutes need to show up in Seminole County to expose the fraud that is the Central Florida standard of living?
You can do better than this Geraghty.
