Insurance Competition Quotes

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we'll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost.

Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.

Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

The best thing that is happening with the health care is premiums will come down. We'll have tremendous competition; you know, we're getting rid of the border state lines, and we're going to have tremendous competition. We're going to have insurance companies fighting, like life insurance. You know, we - life insurance, you have these companies that are like - like going all over the place. We're going to have a tremendous - tremendously competitive market and health care costs are going to be forced down.

The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.

If the private insurance market can survive in a context of a public option, good for them. But if they can't, then that will tell you something about the nature of the market.

We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense.

We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.