Insurance Denial Quotes

It is important to remember the purpose of health care reform: to make sure Americans have access to quality, affordable health care - especially those individuals who were being denied by their insurance companies because they weren't profitable customers.

I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And I've a lot of met people who've been denied coverage who don't have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn't have to do that.

I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.

We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

It is the normal and everyday activity of insurance companies to identify and segregate that part of the population which has the highest risk and either refuse to insure them at all or charge them a higher premium.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

It's always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you're just going to fall over or something.

I have trouble getting approvals from my heath insurance company for basic antidepressants. And I have the best plan my agency has. I can't get high off this stuff! I'm not going to sell it! Getting my medication is critical. It's me saying, "I just want to live." And their response seems to be, "We agree that it's a matter of life and death; that's why we're declining it." Every time I get a cold, I have Tylenol with codeine coming out the wazoo. But the medication I need to live? Nah.

Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, 'Well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?' Let's eliminate all of that.

But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

You might not want to go without essential health benefits or lose consumer protections if an insurance company many states away denies your claim or goes belly-up.

We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.