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Quotes from The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know — Andrew Tobias

born 1947

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The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

"Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence,..."

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

Life insurance is a commodity.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

There's no question young drivers have far more accidents than older ones-but is it our aim to keep them off the roads? Or to allow only rich young people (who can afford the premiums) to drive?

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, " For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose."

The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andrew Tobias (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.