Insurance Quotes: Expert Insights and Advice

"Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"

Woody Allen, Director

"Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us"

Bart Stupak, Politician

"Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders"

Ronald Reagan, President

"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it"

William Penn, Leader

"Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label"

Barack Obama, President

"I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance"

Ron Chernow, Author

"The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

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