Company Quote by Andrew Weil

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

For decades, cost-conscious Republicans criticized the way health care is delivered in our country. They argued that generous insurance plans, combined with the fee-for-service…

— Neera Tanden

Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by…

— Tim Walberg

We need to make sure that people get good adequate health care that's not necessarily tied to their insurance, that's not mandated, that's not…

— Ron Estes

Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further,…

— Alex Gibney

Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state…

— Maria Cantwell

One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government.…

— Thomas Sowell

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

— Virginia Postrel

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover…

— Dianne Feinstein

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it…

— Dianne Feinstein

If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for…

— Glenn Loury

Doctors and hospitals should be paid for keeping their patients well. Paying them for doing more tests and surgeries creates bad incentives.

— Richard Thaler