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
Related Under Obamacare, rates are skyrocketing, and insurers are leaving the marketplace. TODD YOUNG As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompe... DIANA DEGETTE Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one ... ANDREW P. HARRIS The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Put... MARY LANDRIEU Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform l... TEMPLE GRANDIN When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health in... TED DEUTCH These savings are a clear positive, but retiree liability cuts are likely to see some almost immedia... ROBERT BARRY Securities companies and insurers are suspected of fixing commission fees or insurance premiums, but... HUR SEON We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want e... STEVEN BURD When spending on health care goes up faster than earnings … people are priced out of the health in... PAUL GINSBURG While formidable, Isabel will fall generally within the range of catastrophic risk that insurers ant... BOB HARTWIG Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to s... LINCOLN CHAFEE Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Govern... RON WYDEN Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard... PAUL FARMER America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care... MIKE FERGUSON One thing we know in health insurance is that efficiencies ultimately help us take pressure off heal... BRUCE LEVY What we're trying to do is change the whole system of health care delivery. ALAN HUDSON Health care in this country is in a rut, ... The system doesn't care, politicians don't listen and i... LOUIS SIMPSON Insurers are penalizing many African Americans and Latinos with good driving records by charging the... MARK SAVAGE High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insuran... BOB BECKEL Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to s... LINCOLN CHAFEE The fact is that our (health care) delivery system is flawed. Many of us do not have an optimistic o... JOE KORTUM There is a growing awareness at all levels of how broken our system is becoming. Health insurance is... CAROL PRYOR It's not really up to the hospitals to decide what the health care delivery system should be. DONALD R. SMITHBURG We are all hurt by insurance scams. As health care consumers, we all end up paying the price for fra... ALEX JOHNSON The problem with the health care system is that health insurance is unaffordable or unavailable. It'... ANTHONY WRIGHT This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the e... PAUL RYAN Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term ba... LIYA KEBEDE While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every Ameri... RON WYDEN One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that... MIKE HUCKABEE The Democratic Party believes that health insurance is a social responsibility of the nation. I beli... RAUL LABRADOR Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'... PHIL ROBERTSON We're not closing the door to looking at the insurance-based model for one part or for several parts... IRIS EVANS We fully support the insurers having adequate reserves to do business and remain competitive. But it... NANCY ADAMS America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medica... PAUL GILLMOR America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. WALTER CRONKITE Individuals who cannot afford health insurance coverage can still have access to appropriate care pr... GEORGE JOHNSON Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard... PAUL FARMER The percentage of uninsured working adults is climbing consistently because of the cost of insurance... KATHY BAXLEY NAMIC strongly supports the expansion of Section 831(b)(2). The modification of this section is very... DAVID WINSTON Today we're here to announce an unprecedented commitment from media to business, to health care indu... HILLARY CLINTON Rising prescription brand-name drugs are raising insurance premiums to unaffordable heights, ... The... ALAN SAGER Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens als... JOHN CONYERS We see many people taking control of their health care costs by moving to an HSA-eligible health ins... GARY LAUER We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates a... JIM RENACCI Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE Our human resources managers work closely with insurers and other partners to promote good health an... LISA DAGLIAN The problem is that most employers and businesses are not back, and that means many people are still... DR. CAROL CURRIER Due to skyrocketing costs for energy, raw materials and health care, CTNA cannot continue to operate... ALAN HIPPE America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world. CHRISTY TURLINGTON The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on a... DREW ALTMAN I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion ... GARY BAUER Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance... ELIZABETH EDWARDS Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care syst... TOM HARKIN This is a return to conventional premiums that historically are part of the IPO market. We are back ... JOE HAMMER This is a return to conventional premiums that historically are part of the IPO market, ... We are b... JOE HAMMER Medicine and health care is changing as the nation changes. We are no different. DR. ROOPAL KUNDU a slow but perceptible deterioration of our employer-based (health insurance) system. DREW ALTMAN Your credit score affects the interest rates you're offered on credit cards and loans, can be us... SUZE ORMAN We estimate that from 2000 to 2003, health insurance premiums for employers will have increased by a... MARK GOLDBERG When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women's Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance... ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN As Congress debates overhauling the nation's health care system, it should not authorize a refor... ERIK PAULSEN Today, only a small percentage of consumers are aware of clinical trials as a health care option, bo... DR. C. EVERETT KOOP Nurses are on the front lines of our care. And they need to be at the foundation of health care refo... KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have hea... GEORGE J. MITCHELL In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the o... STUDS TERKEL Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and dr... ALEX GIBNEY We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying ... RICHARD LAMM It's too early to tell whether the decline in HMO/POS enrollment is a short-term phenomenon or -- mo... BLAINE BOS These ratings are clear evidence of the positive affect we are having on the health of our members. ... JOSH BENNETT America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness a... TOM HARKIN America's men and women in uniform bravely defend our nation and our values. Their skill, dedica... JOHN DELANEY Health reform has been like a car with a dead battery. I think this will provide the jumper cables. ... JACK MEYER As long as the growth in health insurance premiums far outpaces the growth in wages, the erosion in ... LARRY LEVITT We know that improving our health-care system isn't just the responsibility of government or our car... LINDA REBROVICK And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who ar... JUAN WILLIAMS Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insur... DENNIS KUCINICH The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by any... THOMAS FRANK Our children are going to look at our highways, our health-care system and our education system and ... RON SCHULER Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains str... RANDY NEUGEBAUER You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in ... MEHMET OZ Increases in health and liability insurance costs, utility expenses, and garbage hauling fees were f... DAVID ROBERTS From routine hospital visits and prescription drugs, to emergencies and hospice care, Medicare cover... ANN MCLANE KUSTER Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or mak... BLANCHE LINCOLN Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they c... JEFF MERKLEY We are extremely pleased to reduce rates for educators who give so much to our community. The facts ... DOUG REYNOLDS As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspec... JOHN BARRASSO My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality... CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS These patients are the canary in the coal mine of any health care system. CATHY SCHOEN When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he wo... DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to impro... ERIC TOPOL There's just a lot of work that needs to be done on our system. And the rates are going to have to g... DAVE PETERSON There are too many Americans that are without basic health insurance. And those that do have it are ... MIKE LEAVITT The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it,... BENJAMIN WALKER Raising the tobacco tax will generate state revenue, save health care funds, reduce youth smoking an... JEANETTE SCHATZ Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosper... MARK KENNEDY We have entrusted our health care system to for-profit companies. JAMES LARDNER Right now what's on the table that's being proposed are changes which are frankly going to change th... GIL MCGOWAN We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed ca... JEFF MERKLEY
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