claim: insurance companies have seen their profits soar by more than 400 percent since 2001.
author: jay rockefeller
evidence_1: aug 21, 2016 ... pharmaceutical company has a virtual monopoly on epipens after a voluntary  recall felled their only competitor*, sanofi's auvi-q, over possible ... the patient  now pays about 400% more for this advantage to receive a dollar's worth of the  lifesaving drug: epipens were about $57 when mylan acquired it.
evidence_2: jan 19, 2011 ... 21, 2009, opinion piece for the capitol hill newspaper roll call in which he said,  "insurance companies have seen their profits soar by more than 400 percent  since 2001, while premiums for consumers have doubled." as we did then, we'll  break this into two fact-checks. we'll deal with the claim about ...
evidence_3: dec 15, 2016 ... don and judy stenberg have earthquake insurance for their home, and when the  area was annexed as a part of bellevue, their premiums went up almost 75  percent. ... but state records show that just five companies account for more than  half of all quake premiums collected by licensed insurers. of the five ...
evidence_4: oct 7, 2009 ... sen. jay rockefeller, d-w.va., recently wrote an opinion piece for the capitol hill  newspaper roll call in which he said, "insurance companies have seen their  profits soar by more than 400 percent since 2001, while premiums for consumers  have doubled." we address the first part of this statement in ...
evidence_5: jun 21, 2015 ... since then, income growth has remained unbalanced: as profits have reached  record highs and the stock market has boomed, the wages of most workers, ...  that ceo pay grew far faster than pay of the top 0.1 percent of wage earners  indicates that ceo compensation growth does not simply reflect the ...