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For the Blue Cross board, an offer they couldn't refuse
March 8, 2011 By Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist

They met in the Blue Cross Blue Shield board room, on the 8th floor of the old Sears building in the Fenway, and Andrew Dreyfus, the current and only non-gazillionaire Blue Cross CEO we know of, was channeling Marlon Brando as he made his board of directors an offer they couldn't refuse.

Give up your salaries, he suggested, and maybe, just maybe, the people -- give him credit: he didn't say rabble -- will pipe down enough so that we can have a more important conversation about the real causes behind spiraling health care costs.

They agreed unanimously to do so. Just like they had agreed unanimously to give Dreyfus's predecessor, Cleve Killingsworth, a big wet kiss worth $11 million to leave the state's biggest insurer after he ran the non-profit deeper into the red.

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For the Blue Cross board, an offer they couldn't refuse