13 Quotes by Jerry Flanagan

When Wall Street analysts talk about efficiencies, they're talking about more money for HMO profits, not better care.

But those that need affordable health care most can't afford to invest. More than half of those already enrolled in these plans have not put any money in their health savings account.

HMOs and insurers pumping up their coffers at the detriment to seniors is a blight on the Medicare prescription drug benefit and is the last straw of their looting and pillaging of health care.

Requiring something people cannot afford is not a solution to solving the health care crisis.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a handful of insurance companies with a stranglehold on the market can raise rates.

What the HMOs can't explain is why premiums are increasing twice as fast as hospital and physician costs.

This is a national problem. Insurance companies sell you a policy and then they break their promises and they cherry-pick and only insure those that are healthy. Dare you get sick, your coverage is revoked. This makes a mockery of health insurance.

At a time when 6.5 million Californians cannot afford their health care and millions more are underinsured, it is obscene to allow executives to feed at the trough of huge cash and stock payouts.

If the pill looks any differently than you are normally used to seeing it, different shape, different color, take it to a pharmacist.