Insurance Quotes: Expert Insights and Advice

"Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"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

"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

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

Woody Allen, Director

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

Ronald Reagan, President

"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

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

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"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

"Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"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

"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

"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

"Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"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

"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

"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

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

William Penn, Leader

"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 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

"Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect

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

Corrine Brown, Politician

"In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"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

"I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too"

Jack Benny, Comedian

"People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"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

"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

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

Charles Schumer, Politician

"The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

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

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet"

Jerry Costello, 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

"Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

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