#insurance

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking. ↗

— Douglass North

#around #banking #centered #dissertation #early

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school. ↗

— Douglass North

#boy #company #completed #even #father

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco. ↗

— Douglass North

#been #came #coast #college #company

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#especially #health #health insurance #insurance #insurance companies

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#america #based #cannot #care #drive

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#insurance #investment #lies #plan #success

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#actually #against #companies #cost #frivolous

The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#care #concern #employer #families #getting

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#building #did #first #first thing #get

Both terrorism and insurance sell fear -- and business is business ↗

— Liam McCurry

#fear #insurance #terrorism #business