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Alex Gibney Quotes

American - Director | October 23, 1953 -

In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?

Work Question Hospital Us Market

Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.

Care Insurance Dangerous Pay Cost

To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks.

Heart Top Pay Get Willing Like

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

Medicine Insurance Nothing Pay Big

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

War Legal Guilty Innocent Military

Now, unfortunately, some prissy card-carrying members of the U.S. Constitution have made us all look bad by pointing out that many of the Gitmo detainees weren't guilty of anything. Whoops!

Constitution Look Bad Guilty Now Us

Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.

Villain You Want Him Just Even

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

Journalism Embrace Way Contradictions

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

Good Myself Pretty Filmmaker Writer

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

People Me Mission Admire Original

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Sports Yourself I Am Win Performance

I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.

Good Accounting I Can Nothing Film

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