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Insurance Quotes
On protecting what matters, one policy at a time.
This collection of insurance quotes opens with dry humor about a spouse taking out an extra life policy, then widens into a bigger idea: justice itself functioning as the insurance people rely on for a stable life. For more on that theme, see Protection quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we need are different types of insurance, some of which have copays, some that have coinsurance, but they need to offer a better first layer of coverage.
- Health Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
After much reflection, I have concluded that the federal individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014, will not be upheld.
- Fiscally
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- Nov 07, 2020
We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Younger participants in the exchanges and who purchase individual insurance paid more, and they just didn't see the value, and therefore, they did not come forward and sign up.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if we're going to have a requirement that everyone have equal access to insurance, you really have to have a way to make certain that everyone is expected to participate.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ACA's reliance on mandatory participation in exchanges as the only way to obtain a health insurance subsidy is fundamentally flawed.
- Exchanges
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are several problems with the ACA's reliance on means-based inclusion criteria and mandatory participation in exchanges - the complexity of the exchange mechanism, and the potential for income-based subsidies to become a disincentive to earn if insurance rates escalate for those beyond the income threshold.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
For insurance solvency, ongoing plan participation is vital.
- Nov 07, 2020
Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Flood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the federal flood insurance program is actuarially unsound and renders private insurance not viable, thereby needing an overhaul going forward.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technology, seems a natural component of a policy to address rising inequality. Revenue could be targeted toward wage insurance, to help people replaced by new technology make the transition to a different career.
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