#insurance

If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor. ↗

— Mike Ross

#always #care #choose #congress #doctor

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#care #characteristics #could #differences #explained

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

— Gerry Spence

#companies #done #insurance #insurance companies #large

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#affordable health care #believe #better #care #competition

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

#debilitating #delivery #either #excessive #health

The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#businesses #care #care costs #costs #coverage

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#accepted #beyond #care #costs #covered

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist. ↗

— Jack Anderson

#boxes #codes #communicates #exist #industry

I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families. ↗

— Joan Lunden

#build #child-bearing #cover #covering #encourage

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#beyond #billion #break #buy #consumers