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

— Andrew Tobias

Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 16, How To Buy Insurance, p. 296.

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