John Rowe Quotations

Medicare Health Support is a tremendous advance in Medicare, ... It represents a shift in emphasis from simply waiting to treat costly complications and emergencies once they arise, to investing in helping Medicare beneficiaries with chronic disease stay well.

We're all in difficulty here with each other because we've all failed in some way to meet the responsibilities that the Governor and the legislature and the state has given us.

The problems in our core health business are substantial. They are not something we can fix in a quarter or two.

This new hurricane presents enormous additional challenges and hardships for everyone affected, and Aetna will do what we can to help our members get care and comfort, ... With so many people cut off from their usual physicians, hospitals and pharmacies, we are expanding our efforts to help members, in addition to continuing coverage even if they are unable to make premium payments.

These actions are further evidence of Aetna's long-standing commitment to being a corporate governance leader, ... Many shareholders in corporate America want more say when it comes to electing directors at companies. Our board studied other alternatives, including cumulative voting, and decided that implementing a majority vote standard for director elections most effectively responds to shareholder needs and strengthens our board's accountability to our shareholders. We also believe that the package of enhancements adopted today is consistent with corporate governance best practices.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those caught in Hurricane Katrina's destructive path, ... We are proud to provide direct financial assistance as well as the direct participation and expertise of our power restoration team.

Our efforts to improve our business are well under way, and we are making considerable progress on our strategic initiatives,

As a result of a very thorough succession planning process, we decided that naming Ron Williams CEO early in the year would provide for an orderly transition.

It's clear that there's a consensus that the university should be relieved of the day-to-day responsibility for maintaining the water supply and distribution. It's rather unusual that a university would have to run this.

These targeted actions are about running our business right, not just about belt tightening, ... They flow not only from lower membership levels and the sale of certain businesses, but also from re-engineering decisions that will make the company more disciplined and efficient.

At the end of the day, you want to respect what you do. In a certain sense, our work is us. We get into it, and it gets into us.

A system with proper margin and maintenance should not have this bad luck. The mayor is absolutely right. I'm at least as angry as he is.

I'm the biggest nuke operator in the country, but I have to get the timing exactly right if my company is ever going to build (another) one.

I don't see it as abnormal in any way; he's just on the private end of the spectrum. But I don't think that it influences his function.