Insurance Companies Quotes

• I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Care, Golden

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

  Edgar Degas

  Stuff, Company, Ifs

  Edgar Degas (1948). “Letters”

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• The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

  Leo Buscaglia

  People, Wealth, Company

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Calendars

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• Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

  Allan Sekula

  Black And White, Use, Telling The Truth

  Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”

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• If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.

  Paul Polman

  Mother, Years, Long

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.

  Harry Reid

  Sick, President, Tough

  Harry Reid's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

  Tim Walberg

  Stress, Doctors, Government

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• My name is Wendell Potter and for 20 years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies, and I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick -- all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.

  Wendell Potter

  Senior, Wall, Years

  "Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 16, 2010.

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• ...The asbestos industry...has for decades successfully suppressed and manipulated information on the carcinogenicity and other hazards of asbestos. Involved in this conspiracy network were senior industry executives, their medical staff, attorneys, insurance companies, trade associations, scientific consultants, and commercial labs.

  Samuel Epstein

  Senior, Dark, Age

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• I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Burning Down, Fantasy, Claims

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• People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.

  Lizz Winstead

  People, Care, Company

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.

  Thomas Sowell

  Doctors, People, Trying

  "Whose Medical Decisions?: Part IV" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 19, 2009.

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• Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Boss, World, Want

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• I had a job interview at an insurance company once, and the lady said 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I said, 'Celebrating the fifth year anniversary of you asking me this question!'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama cannot win, and they are put in place to assure a victory by Mitt Romney... this is the plan of all the insurance companies that are owned by Mormon interests. It is unfolding as the Mormon Church planned over the last fifty years.

  Roseanne Barr

  Stupid, Winning, Years

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• I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.

  Max Baucus

  Believe, Opportunity, America

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• People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

  Joshua Kushner

  People, Lessons, Congress

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• What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

  Gerry Spence

  Done, Reverse, Company

  "Humanscape : Environments for People". Book by Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, 1987.

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• President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Cutting, President, Reform

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley", www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

  Paul Krugman

  Army, Government, Company

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• Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

  Scott Pelley

  Army, Government, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Obamacare, President, Reform

  Remarks by Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the Demcoratic National Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pain, Husband, Productive Work

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.392, Open Road Media

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• Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Family, Mother, Strong

  "Pelosi: I Never Met 'Anybody Who Liked His or Her Plan'" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 21, 2013.

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