RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms. – Lisa Gansky
I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm. – Kay Granger
In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent. – Mike Pence
Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they’re supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care. – Michael Moore
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
With Zipcar, consumers avoid the upfront cost of buying a car, not to mention gas, insurance, and repairs. Plus, they reduce the number of polluting vehicles on the road. Suddenly the planet-smart carless option is also the convenient money-saving option. – Lynn Jurich
I oppose Obamacare and believe it has failed. It drove up premiums, took insurance away from people who were promised otherwise, and usurped state programs. – Mitt Romney
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. – John Conyers
Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them – making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip. – John B. Larson
Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can’t afford coverage or their insurance doesn’t cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families. – Jeff Merkley
With interest rates rising, gold doesn’t pay an interest rate, but every other currency – it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold. – Lloyd Blankfein
Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment. – John W. Snow
Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered. – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Unfortunately, I’ve got airplanes that I can’t even afford to use today that are sitting there. I’m still paying insurance on them; I’m still paying payments. – Robby Gordon
I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid. – Ron DeSantis
Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer. – Rand Paul
The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious… This administration simply doesn’t get it. – Rob Portman
Let’s hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line. – Ron Wyden
I think the federal flood insurance program is actuarially unsound and renders private insurance not viable, thereby needing an overhaul going forward. – Ron DeSantis
It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies. – Ron Wyden
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
What is Obamacare doing? It’s destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can’t find a replacement because it’s too expensive. – Rush Limbaugh
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others. – Patrick J. Kennedy
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. – Ralph Nader
I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill. – Ron Wyden
Social Security is a social insurance program – it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k). – Paul Krugman
The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We’re saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time. – Peter Orszag