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My daughter vs. AOL’s profits: “There’s no point in offering health benefits if you’re going to point fingers when people actually need to use them”
“How much is a human life worth?” Deanna Fei’s memoir “Girl in Glass” attempts to answer this question by documenting how the premature birth of Fei’s daughter in October 2012 set into motion a series of “catastrophic” events that climaxed when Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, blamed the company’s increase in health care costs on “distressed babies.” One of these babies, Fei soon realized, was her own; her husband worked for Huffington Post, which had been acquired by AOL in 2011.
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This is the first time I've heard of this. I'm almost speechless, how can someone like Tim Armstrong remain as CEO of a company after saying something like that?