Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.
Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.
You know we're going to control the insurance companies.
People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.
Insurance companies as they exist today are going to be eliminated.
In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
I don't want people to spend their nights worrying about getting hit by asteroids. But I do want them to encourage their political leaders to invest in the insurance, which will allow us to prevent it from happening.
People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point.
The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.
We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.