Care Quote by Anthony Weiner

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

The truth is that Republicans are not actually worried about accountability or giving Americans more health care options. They are not even worried about…

— Neera Tanden

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

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid…

— Bernie Sanders

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

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in…

— Anthony Weiner

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

— Virginia Postrel

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private…

— Barack Obama

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

— Bernie Sanders

Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to…

— William J. Clinton

Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that…

— Russ Feingold

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not

— Bennie Thompson