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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.

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Care Companies Cost Costs Cover Dangerous Fail Further Here Hospitals Inefficiency Insurance Insurance Companies Patient Pay Paying Raise Really Should Specialists Then Us Where

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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.

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Attacks Blockbuster Cause Despite Fact Fatal Get Heart Like Pay Prices Private Some Strokes Top Willing

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

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Big Bucks Companies Insurance Insurance Companies Medicine Most Next Nothing Patient Pay Preventive Procedures Which

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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.'

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Administration Bush Bush Administration Designed Global Guilty Innocent Legal Military Separate Structures Terror War Were Years

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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!

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Anything Bad Constitution Guilty Look Made Many Members Now Out Pointing Some Unfortunately U.s. Constitution Us Were

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

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Topics: Even Him Just Some Villain Want You

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

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Contradictions Documentaries Embrace Journalism Way

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

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Consider Filmmaker Good Myself Pretty Pretty Good Talker Very Writer

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

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Admire Including Many Me Mission Original People Who Wikileaks

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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.

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Am Athletic Beyond Counts Deliver Exceed Expectations How Interested Own Performance Something Sports Will Win You Your Yourself I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: October 23rd, 1953

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