Insurance Companies Quotes - Page 2

• [On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Female, Reason

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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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• The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest rates are determined largely by global financial markets.

  Mario Draghi

  Keys, Long, Determined

  "Draghi Defends Euro Rescue Policies". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. January 02, 2014.

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• Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, People, Water

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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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• 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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• Good presidents, people like George Bush, they SEND people to war. They don't bring them a rescue. This is America. We rescue insurance companies and banks.

  Bill Maher

  War, America, People

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• Free financial advice: buy life insurance for Saakashvili from US and UK insurance companies.

  Evgeni Kostitsyn

  Life, Advice, Financial

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• If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

  Deepak Chopra

  Class, Medicine, Needs

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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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• 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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• I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

  Samuel Wilson

  Physicians, Records, Medical

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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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• We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

  John Salazar

  Company, Drivers, Seats

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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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• We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Jobs, Company, Better Jobs

  "State Of The Union With John King", transcripts.cnn.com. September 6, 2009.

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• I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

  John Barrasso

  Doctors, Want, Patient

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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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• Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.

  James Surowiecki

  Father, Commitment, Investment

  "Through the Roof". www.newyorker.com. May 08, 2006.

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• Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.

  James Surowiecki

  Construction Workers, Cities, Matter

  "Creative Destruction?" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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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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• Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.

  James Surowiecki

  Focus, Care, Problem

  "Bitter Pills". www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Fans, Company, Health Insurance Companies

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

  Michael Moore

  Should, Profit, Private Health Insurance

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