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Does a company boss deserve a $500 million payout for a successful merger?

And why are health insurance companies jumping into bed with what at times seem to be completely different companies?

These are the questions we'll be tackling on this edition of

the Views Room, a weekly conversation among Breaking Views columnists about the ups and downs of the

world of finance. I'm your host, Anthony Curry. So, Etna Chief Executive Mark Bertolini is

bagging half a billion dollars just from selling the insurance company to drug store chain operator CVS

health. It's almost perfectly timed for the coming tax cuts that Trump administration is about

to gift to the Uber wealthy. But does Bertolini deserve it? Join me to work this out is our very

own Rob Siren. Hey Rob, how you doing? How's it going? Good. So, does he? I mean, why is he getting half a billion dollars?

Well, it's both he doesn't, he doesn't. Let's start with...

So... You're... You don't you hedge your answers, young man.

The answer is no. Okay, let's just go with that. So Edna's done really well for its shareholders.

Over the past, since he became CEO in 2010, the

stock's gone up sixfold. I take that. Investors are pretty happy with that. And a lot

of the money he's earned is basically, so he got paid a lot, he gets paid a lot per year.

He got paid about $17 million last year, I think it was. And he's got that in stock and options,

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