Patricia Hemingway Hall

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Patricia Hemingway Hall

Age: 59

Occupation: CEO, Health Care Service Corp.

She oversees the fourth-largest health insurance company in America, parent of BlueCross and BlueShield of Illinois and provider to 13 million. Look for that number to soar now that Obamacare has the green light.

Photograph: PHIL VELASQUEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE