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Quotes About Insurers

From drug companies to health insurers to Wall Street banks, big corporations are spending millions to buy influence in Washington and drown out the voices of regular people.
~ Ayanna Pressley
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.
~ Jim Ryun
The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.
~ Joshua Kushner
The authors of the Affordable Care Act wrongly assumed that new kinds of health plans, engineered in Washington, D.C., would emerge to displace the national for-profit insurers.
~ Scott Gottlieb
The bond company comes in if you exceed your costs; they're the insurers of the film. In the worst-case scenario, they take over the production.
~ Todd Haynes
Insurers reimburse critical care, not the avoidance of incidents. Therefore, investments are not targeted towards prevention.
~ Frans van Houten
Medicare's administrative costs are only 3 percent, far below the 30 percent average administrative costs of private insurers.
~ Robert B. Reich
Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.
~ Andrew P. Harris
Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.
~ Maria Cantwell
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.
~ Jim Ryun
In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.
~ Carol Loomis
Before Obamacare, insurance networks typically covered an entire state. Under Obamacare, insurers are able to bid to offer coverage mostly on a county-by-county basis. It means that health plans only need to fashion doctor networks as wide as the county that they're bidding to offer coverage in.
~ Scott Gottlieb
To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks.
~ Alex Gibney
Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.
~ Andrew Tobias
Under Obamacare, rates are skyrocketing, and insurers are leaving the marketplace.
~ Todd Young
Clear prices force health care providers and insurers to lower their rates to attract customers - like their counterparts in the rest of the economy.
~ Mike Braun
People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.
~ Angela Braly
Massachusetts has prohibited most financial advisers from using titles like 'certified senior adviser,' and some of the largest insurers, including MetLife and Genworth Financial, have similar rules.
~ Charles Duhigg
A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.
~ Henry Paulson
Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.
~ Robert Reich
As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.
~ Diana DeGette
The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.
~ Andrew Tobias
Obamacare is socialism? Nope - as insurance companies vie to sell new policies, competition within private industry is growing rapidly, with the number of participating insurers growing by 26 percent between 2014 and 2015, and the number of products they offer growing by 66 percent.
~ Kurt Eichenwald
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
~ Paul Ryan