Insurance Companies Quotes - Page 3

• All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

  Lysander Spooner

  Party, Character, Fire

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.242, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

  Charles Schumer

  Decision, Care, Company

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• I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find a job, and I took the first job that came along. It happened to be a management trainee job in a life insurance company, and I just stayed. It was always, mainly, the idea was that I would support myself as a writer, and I knew I would have to have some sort of work, and it didn't make a whole lot of difference to me what it was. I mean, I could have been a paper hanger or something for that matter.

  Ted Kooser

  School, Mean, Support

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're going to stand with working people. We're going to take on the billionaire class. We're going the take on the drug companies and the insurance companies. We're going the take on Wall Street. That's where I think the future of the Democratic Party lies.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Lying, Party

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Obamacare is collapsing. It's dead. It's gone. There's nothing to compare anything to because we don't have health care in this country. You just look at what's happening. Aetna just pulled out. Other insurance companies are pulling out. We don't have health care. Obamacare is a fallacy. It's gone.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Care, Compare

  Remarks by President Trump and President Santos of Colombia in Joint Press Conference, www.whitehouse.gov. May 18, 2017.

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• The best thing that is happening with the health care is premiums will come down. We'll have tremendous competition; you know, we're getting rid of the border state lines, and we're going to have tremendous competition. We're going to have insurance companies fighting, like life insurance. You know, we - life insurance, you have these companies that are like - like going all over the place. We're going to have a tremendous - tremendously competitive market and health care costs are going to be forced down.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, Competition, Care

  "Transcript: President Donald Trump's Interview With Bloomberg News". Interview with Jennifer Jacobs and Margaret Talev, www.bloomberg.com. May 2, 2017.

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• There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

  Michael Moore

  Should, Profit, Private Health Insurance

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• If we can have record high unemployment, record job loss, and just an absolutely anemic economic recovery because of Obama's policies, and he's not blamed for it, what makes anybody think he's gonna get blamed when an insurance company starts doubling their premiums?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Recovery, Loss

  "Obama Lied, Your Health Insurance Died". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dictator, Company

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• It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Easy, Company, Customers

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• The insurance companies make about $15 billion a year. They have doubled their profit margin under Obamacare. And so now we're going to take a lot of this and call it a stabilization fund, but really it's a bailout of insurance companies. And I just think that's wrong. I just can't see why ordinary, average taxpayers would be giving money to very, very wealthy corporations. An analogous situation would be this: We all complain that new cars cost too much. Why don't we have a new car stabilization fund and give $130 billion to car companies?

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Car, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Lying, Trying, Physicians

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• Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

  Barbara Boxer

  Decision, Care, Medical

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• Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.

  Joe Biden

  Running, Two, People

  "Exclusive: Vice President Biden Says President Obama’s Rescheduled Trip Not a Bad Sign for Health Care Bill’s Prospects". Interview, blogs.abcnews.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

  Andrew Weil

  Government, Physicians, Pay

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

  Ron Wyden

  Lines, Way, Company

  "Rachel Maddow Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. October 26, 2009.

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• This is something the Democrats have talked about, and a goal we share, getting everyone insured, and solving the issue in a Republican way, which is applying a personal responsibility principle (individual mandate), reforming the market (more strictly regulating the insurance companies), and allowing people to buy private health care insurance that they can take with them from job to job that's entirely affordable. So it's a Republican way of solving a problem that we face as a nation.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Responsibility, Issues

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• I have trouble getting approvals from my heath insurance company for basic antidepressants. And I have the best plan my agency has. I can't get high off this stuff! I'm not going to sell it! Getting my medication is critical. It's me saying, "I just want to live." And their response seems to be, "We agree that it's a matter of life and death; that's why we're declining it." Every time I get a cold, I have Tylenol with codeine coming out the wazoo. But the medication I need to live? Nah.

  Jenny Lawson

  Agency, Life And Death, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want to go further, because it was investment banks, it was insurance companies, it was mortgage companies, all of which contributed.So let's not just be narrowly focused on one part of the problem. We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Issues, Want

  "Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate". www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• We're going to have a lot of different options. Right now you have no options. You know why? Because the insurance company controlled Obama because they gave him a lot of money. That's why you have lines around the states. And you can't get competitive bidding.

  Donald Trump

  Different, Bidding, Lines

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like - and various governmental agencies who are charged with regulating these firms.

  John L. Casti

  Agency, Financial, Firm

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Issues, Battle, Reform

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• Wake up, America. The insurance companies took over health care. Wake up, America. The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing. Wake up, America. The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake up, America. They want to take your Social Security. Wake up, America. Multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing, good paying jobs lost. Wake up, America. We went into Iraq for oil.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Wall, Oil, Iraq

  Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!

  George Carlin

  Country, Philosophy, Party

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• I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.

  James Hillman

  Hard Work, People, Political

  Source: scottlondon.com

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