"This is simply immoral and unacceptable."
"health insurance companies discriminate against women solely on the basis of their gender."
"It is also unbelievable to me that, in this day and age, we allow insurance companies to charge women more for health insurance simply because of the fact that they may become pregnant."
"It is of utmost importance that national health reform legislation makes a real difference in the lives of American women, across their lifespan."
"And I just do not want to lower our standards, and any insurance company that operates--that wants to operate in Minnesota can just simply meet our standards."
"I am not aware of any industry that is entitled to any guaranteed margin of profit. Are you?"
"In numerous States, nearly 90 percent of the health insurance markets are dominated by a single carrier."
"I am a cosponsor of this bill, and I believe that Senator Leahy's legislation in health care companies' exemption from antitrust laws is a crucial first step to anticompetitive behavior."
"If you have got that kind of market share."
"The average individual Maine health insurance consumer is paying four times as much today for health care as they did 10 years ago."
"I personally hear this a lot about, oh, well, you should be able to buy insurance products from--you know, we should deregulate it so you could buy insurance products from all over the place."