In 2008, Royal Caribbean had over over 1,200 open medical files for ill and injured crew members around the world. Due to certain cost cutting measures, by 2010 Royal Caribbean slashed the number of open crew medical files to around 400. In the process, the cruise line culled over 800 ill crew members from its medical department's responsibility. In many instances, there was no legal basis to terminate the medical care. In cases where the medical care was not arbitrarily terminated, the cruise line reduced the daily stipend for sick crew employees from $25 to $12 a day. Needless to say, it is impossible for anyone to live on $12 for food and lodging a day. These harsh cost cutting measures "saved" Royal Caribbean millions. Given the fact that cruise executives Fain and Goldstein collected over $12,500,000 together last year, it looks like the money formerly spent on crew member medical benefits ended up in the executives' pockets.