Insurance Quotes

‘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

‘Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.’ – Suze Orman

‘There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?’ – Woody Allen

‘Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Even if I might say to myself, ‘I don’t need health insurance. I won’t get sick,’ the fact is, as human beings with mortality, we are going to get sick, and it’s unpredictable when.’ – Neal Katyal

‘The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.’ – Frank Ocean

‘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

‘I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won’t let me do. Like they won’t set fire to me. They won’t like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it’s just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I’d say I do probably 75% of my stuff.’ – Alex O’Loughlin

‘Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘We cannot watch another family lose everything – risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them – because the flood insurance program’s seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That’s more than wrong: it’s immoral.’ – Jeb Hensarling

‘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

‘Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance.’ – Dennis Kucinich

‘Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘America doesn’t have health insurance.’ – Joe Biden

‘Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.’ – William Penn

‘If we reduce the minimum voting age to 16, as we should, then people could be auto-registered when they are issued with a national insurance card.’ – Jess Phillips

‘If there is anyone dependent on your income – parents, children, relatives – you need life insurance.’ – Suze Orman

‘When you pay a hospital bill, you’re really paying two hospital bills – one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn’t have a job and/or insurance and can’t pay the hospital.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘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

‘Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.’ – Charles Boustany

‘Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.’ – James Surowiecki

‘People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘We went through substantial periods of being dependent on some type of government service, whether food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, children’s health insurance. And I had an acute awareness as a child of what happens when people go without access to health care. I also had an acute awareness that people’s lives were not valued the same.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.’ – Daniel Akaka

‘With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.’ – Thomas R. Insel

‘Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.’ – Niger Innis

‘There’s definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it’s rewarded.’ – Jon Ronson

‘Whenever I leave my apartment, especially if I go on a head-cleansing walk, I always have three things in my pocket: my driver’s license, health insurance card and Washington Post business card with my husband’s cellphone number and message to call him in an emergency.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.’ – Shinya Yamanaka

‘Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.’ – Uday Kotak

‘Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.’ – Jim Bunning

‘Social Security is an insurance policy. It’s a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we’re contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?’ – Laurence D. Fink

‘We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei

‘I’m sure that the standard of public morality we’ve helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.’ – Tommy Douglas

‘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

‘I don’t think healthcare’s a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.’ – Adam Carolla

‘People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I’d say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.’ – Benjamin Spock

‘Look, if you have somebody who doesn’t have health insurance, who doesn’t have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room – in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘Take MediCal and Medicaid patients. All people have a right to quality care and they will teach you as much or more as your insurance and cash patients do.’ – Steven Gundry

‘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

‘Your FICO score is an “I love debt” score. You’re going to pay a bazillion dollars in interest to keep your FICO score up in order to have lower homeowner’s and car insurance rates.’ – Dave Ramsey

‘Your credit score affects the interest rates you’re offered on credit cards and loans, can be used to vet your job application, and in some states may influence your insurance premiums.’ – Suze Orman

‘If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn’t cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.’ – Jack Lew

‘Everybody says they want to have private providers and we’re saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don’t just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.’ – Maria Cantwell

‘The ‘find it, fix it ‘model of medicine doesn’t work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘To protect our country’s economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.’ – Michael Bennet

‘If you move or get married, that has to be changed with HR, payroll, medical insurance, life insurance, etc. It is a huge administrative headache that requires a full-time staff.’ – Parker Conrad

‘Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don’t know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘When I was 23, 24, I started covering hedge funds – a lot of this was luck – when no one else did. This was before hedge funds were the prettiest girl in school: this was pre-nose job and treadmill for hedge funds, when nobody talked to them – back then, it was just all about insurance companies and money managers.’ – Stephanie Ruhle

‘I’m going to announce in the very near future, I’m going to lead by example and start paying 20 percent of my health insurance.’ – Terry Branstad

‘President Obama famously promised that the Affordable Care Act would not only slow the growth in health care costs, but would also reverse these trends, making the average health insurance plan cheaper. That isn’t happening.’ – Scott Gottlieb

‘Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘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

‘Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as ‘socialist.’ Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.’ – Narendra Modi

‘From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.’ – John Shadegg

‘The AARP is a group of 3.8 million Americans bound together by a common love of airline discounts and insurance discounts.’ – Alan K. Simpson

‘Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It’s a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.’ – Jeff Bingaman

‘I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.’ – Jennifer Tilly

‘Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.’ – Hassanal Bolkiah

‘I was just so lucky with ‘Real Women Have Curves.’ At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.’ – America Ferrera

‘There’s no unemployment insurance if you don’t have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.’ – Chris Jericho

‘My mother was a single mom, and she was a claims adjuster at an insurance company. She actually dropped out of school – she was going to become a registered nurse – because she had to take care of me and my brother.’ – Stacy Brown-Philpot

‘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

‘Social Security is a tax and an insurance program. It’s not a 401(k) program.’ – Todd Wilcox

‘There are opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, so yes back home we are talking about investment opportunities in Morocco for various sectors of our economy and we will continue to do that.’ – Donald Evans

‘Its success lies in the fact that it’s an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.’ – James Roosevelt

‘A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you’ve got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn’t work that way. Ideally, it’s insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you’re very lucky.’ – Jason Statham

‘The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.’ – Alan Coren

‘I wanted to become an actor so I didn’t have to put on a suit and sell insurance.’ – Dean Winters

‘The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened – unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there’s a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don’t make it to the NFL and don’t have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.’ – Aaron Rodgers

‘Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.’ – Ernst Zundel

‘My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.’ – Al Pacino

‘I think doctors are really suffering now. They’re suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and the hassles and the paper work and the increasing pressures to do less and less for their patients.’ – Marcia Angell

‘We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.’ – John Mackey

‘President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.’ – Stephanie Cutter

‘My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.’ – Pedro Capo

‘Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.’ – Barack Obama

‘We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation’s social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years.’ – Grace Napolitano

‘You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.’ – Joe Biden

‘Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.’ – Elizabeth Edwards

‘I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country – people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You’ve got to be more worried about your own people.’ – Hugo Chavez

‘Having health insurance made me feel like a real person. Up until then, it felt like I was getting away with something, and if three things went wrong, it would all fall apart.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘It’s almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I’m perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get.’ – Tig Notaro

‘In a perfect world, nothing will happen to Obergefell. And as long as that remains the case, the Respect for Marriage Act would be little more than the legislative equivalent of insurance. It’s not the most comprehensive policy. But it’s better to have half a safeguard than nothing at all if disaster strikes.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn’t have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril.’ – Brian Acton

‘Escrow accounts are an important tool for homeowners to the reduce the risk of mortgage default on high-priced loans. Millions of Americans, including my wife and I, utilize these accounts to make monthly payments towards the annual financial obligations that come with homeownership like taxes and insurance.’ – Seth Moulton

‘The next five months are grim ones. I always feel sorry to have the summertime change, with the dark evenings closing in mid-afternoon, and will try to lay in some physical comforts these months – the best insurance against gloominess for me.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘I do not support a single-payer system; I do support having something there, whether it’s an option or not. And we can work with that, but we have to have something to leverage so we can get the insurance company to bring down their prices, and the only way to do that is to have an alternative there.’ – David Scott

‘People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.’ – Sheila Jackson Lee

‘Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.’ – Bill Gross

‘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

‘If you use your smart toothbrush, the data can be immediately sent to your dentist and your insurance company, but it also allows someone from the NSA to know what was in your mouth three weeks ago.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘It’s very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty – and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.’ – John Grisham

‘In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.’ – Eric Massa

‘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.’ – Steve Israel

‘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

‘My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn’t trust life insurance salesmen.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘Temporary is all you’re going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I’m telling you about. That’s eternal health care, and it’s free… I’ve opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.’ – Phil Robertson

‘Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘Even if you’re doing the national insurance awards, there’s still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.’ – Jimmy Carr

‘In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.’ – Bill Dedman

‘I don’t want to know I’m getting older. Then I’ll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don’t want that.’ – Akon

‘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

‘It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it’s not easy to maintain that attitude.’ – Paul Hawken

‘Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It’s the only insurance against irrelevance. It’s the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It’s the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.’ – Gary Hamel

‘The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.’ – Jason Statham

‘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

‘What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.’ – Gerry Spence

‘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

‘Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means… airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.’ – Cecil Beaton

‘Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.’ – Barbara Boxer

‘The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.’ – Mary Landrieu

‘Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers – both public and private – who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.’ – Susan Collins

‘For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.’ – Ben Nelson

‘Well, let’s go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.’ – Chuck Hagel

‘Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware’s key economic drivers in the state.’ – Ruth Ann Minner

‘If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I’m not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.’ – Donna Reed

‘Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they’re accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.’ – Suzanne Fields

‘I’m against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it’s not just government bureaucrats. I don’t like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.’ – Gary Bauer

‘I didn’t need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn’t look good in the camera or if the actors didn’t hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?’ – Debbie Allen

‘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

‘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

‘Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.’ – Mel Carnahan

‘I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.’ – Ernst Zundel

‘San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.’ – Gavin Newsom

‘It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a ‘hidden premium.’ It simply adds to the health care cost burden.’ – Dave Obey

‘Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.’ – Diane Watson

‘While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.’ – Jerry Costello

‘In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.’ – Christine Gregoire

‘In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.’ – Kenneth Arrow

‘Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.’ – Corrine Brown

‘We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone – and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance.’ – Ken Curtis

‘I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.’ – Samuel Wilson

‘One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that’s a truly staggering figure.’ – John M. McHugh

‘Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.’ – Mink Stole

‘Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.’ – Chaka Fattah

‘The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.’ – Theodore Sturgeon

‘The insurance companies aren’t covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who’s going to cover the losses? The fact is, here’s an industry with no long-term liability in place.’ – Jeremy Rifkin

‘The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.’ – Michael C. Burgess

‘My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.’ – Willie Aames

‘If it’s really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.’ – Eric Braeden

‘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

‘Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.’ – Patrick J. Kennedy

‘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

‘Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that’s where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.’ – Paul Farmer

‘When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.’ – Rod Taylor

‘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

‘The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.’ – Franklin Raines

‘As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?’ – John Doolittle

‘Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.’ – John Malkovich

‘This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America’s seniors were an afterthought.’ – Sherrod Brown

‘Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.’ – Bob Ney

‘Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.’ – John W. Snow

‘However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.’ – Tim Murphy

‘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

‘When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.’ – Douglass North

‘My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.’ – Douglass North

‘My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.’ – Douglass North

‘There are horses people use for competition, and if they don’t perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.’ – Daryl Hannah

‘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

‘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

‘Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.’ – Spencer Bachus

‘Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.’ – John Conyers

‘Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.’ – Jim Cooper

‘Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.’ – Gary Miller

‘Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.’ – John Breaux

‘The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.’ – Gary Miller

‘Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.’ – Timothy Murphy

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don’t have to participate.’ – Earl Blumenauer

‘Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans’ prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.’ – Jim Clyburn

‘Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude’s are treated without regard for the family’s ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.’ – Marlo Thomas

‘The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals.’ – Lawrence Summers

‘Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.’ – John Goodman

‘That’s the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘Social Security is a social insurance program – it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).’ – Paul Krugman

‘The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there’s no check-off box for you, you don’t exist.’ – Jack Anderson

‘We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn’t always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.’ – Anne Roiphe

‘We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that’s best for them and meets their specific needs.’ – Michael Steele

‘The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today – pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources – are not about monetary policy.’ – Timothy Geithner

‘Remember kids, I have life insurance.’ – Adam Savage

‘For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President’s mind.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘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

‘Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.’ – Dianne Feinstein

‘I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.’ – Dianne Feinstein

‘The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We’re saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.’ – Peter Orszag

‘We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they’re denied by their insurer.’ – Eric Cantor

‘We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don’t act.’ – David Axelrod

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 – only this time, it’s not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it’s tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.’ – Arianna Huffington

‘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

‘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

‘And there is no getting away from the fact – and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn’t go far enough. They say why isn’t it in place now? Why don’t I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That’s hurting Obama.’ – Juan Williams

‘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

‘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

‘Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what – private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I’m going to improve health care, I’m going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn’t you?’ – Anthony Weiner

‘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

‘These wrestlers aren’t organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there.’ – Darren Aronofsky

‘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

‘I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.’ – John Grisham

‘Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That’s how to make an independent film.’ – Edward Burns

‘Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.’ – Don Rickles

‘How come liberals never admit that they’re liberal? They’ve now come up with a new word called ‘progressive,’ which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it’s a label.’ – Marco Rubio

‘Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.’ – Mitt Romney

‘If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you’ve got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor.’ – Mike Ross

‘You cannot drive a system that’s going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren’t sick and you don’t have to pay more money on them.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families.’ – Joan Lunden

‘I was the all-American face. You name it, honey – American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald’s, Burger King. The Face That Didn’t Matter – that’s what I called my face.’ – Debra Winger

‘Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.’ – Jenny McCarthy

‘The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn’t care about people who lacked health insurance.’ – Ari Fleischer

‘Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.’ – Andrew P. Harris

‘People would have a health care insurance policy they can call their own. They could choose one that exactly fits their families’ needs and their budgets, be able to take that coverage with them from job to job and be able to fire their insurance company if it doesn’t treat them well.’ – Andrew P. Harris

‘Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care ‘exchange,’ one of the better ideas included in House Bill 3200, creates affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans.’ – Andrew P. Harris

‘An ‘exchange’ would allow everyone to choose their health care insurance from a broad range of options – just like federal employees and Congress do right now – and allow their employer to help pay for it.’ – Andrew P. Harris

‘It was a simple question any employee should ask: ‘Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?” – Andrew P. Harris

‘The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.’ – John Cornyn

‘Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of ‘health insurance,’ which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.’ – John Cornyn

‘If Obamacare is allowed to stand – and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory – there will be no meaningful limit on Washington’s reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.’ – John Cornyn

‘I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that’s not going to get to my insurance company and I’m going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they’ve figured I’m looking at those books.’ – Tim Berners-Lee

‘The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.’ – Austan Goolsbee

‘If people want to keep their kid on their insurance at 26, fine. We’ve got to make sure no American gets turned back for pre-existing conditions, that’s fine.’ – Allen West

‘Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.’ – Mitt Romney

‘Let’s hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.’ – Ron Wyden

‘I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.’ – Ron Wyden

‘It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.’ – Ron Wyden

‘With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers’ unaffordable insurance or going without health care.’ – Ron Wyden

‘While Free Choice Vouchers didn’t fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family’s health insurance costs.’ – Ron Wyden

‘Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.’ – Ron Wyden

‘If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don’t like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.’ – Ron Wyden

‘Under the Healthy Americans Act, you’re in charge of your health care – not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can’t find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.’ – Ron Wyden

‘Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.’ – Fred Upton

‘I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.’ – Gary Locke

‘It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don’t, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they’re going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.’ – Gwen Moore

‘Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That’s what change looks like.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn’t cover women’s most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men – for a worse plan.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘Some said he couldn’t take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.’ – Harry Reid

‘We’ve also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we’d have the right to choose. It’s an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.’ – Sandra Fluke

‘I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.’ – Sandra Fluke

‘Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles.’ – Sandra Fluke

‘And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, ‘will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?’ The answer would be ‘Yes we can!” – Artur Davis

‘Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘I collect old portraits. They’re all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There’s a guy – I don’t know who he is, but he’s wearing a suit. He’s got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I’m just wondering why someone painted him.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.’ – Chris Van Hollen

‘When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman’s health, that’s personal too.’ – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

‘President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.’ – Bev Perdue

‘I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.’ – Barack Obama

‘Look, I’m a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can’t get insurance.’ – Carly Fiorina

‘I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can’t do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn’t want to do anyway.’ – LL Cool J

‘Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘If you’re self-employed, between jobs, or can’t get insurance through work, you’ll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan’s.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘I’ve spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘We took the insurance companies out of the driver’s seat.’ – John Salazar

‘If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That’s not called capitalism, that’s called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.’ – Michael Moore

‘The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.’ – Ben Stein

‘Most Americans want health insurance.’ – Jack Lew

‘I’m no fan of what I’ve seen health insurance companies do.’ – Elizabeth Emken

‘Once your kids are grown and you know that you’re completely healthy, consider canceling your life insurance policy.’ – Suze Orman

‘The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it’s always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.’ – Suze Orman

‘The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn’t available.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they’ll have available to them if they get sick.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘The Patients’ Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It’s a part of the overall health care picture.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.’ – Amy Klobuchar

‘I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.’ – Amy Klobuchar

‘Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.’ – Cindy Margolis

‘The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers’ license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country’s taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.’ – Frank Gaffney

‘Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.’ – Frank Gaffney

‘The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don’t care how I get it, whether it’s on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?’ – Benjamin Walker

‘The only truly individualistic health-care choice – where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds – is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.’ – Thomas Frank

‘Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they’ve lost is the argument that we are a society.’ – Thomas Frank

‘My husband’s family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it’s just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.’ – Sarah Wayne Callies

‘For many years I didn’t have health insurance.’ – Chad Harbach

‘I’m happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was – but it’s almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with ‘Angels,’ and it still generates income for me, but it’s not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.’ – Tony Kushner

‘My insurance provider probably wouldn’t allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd’s of London, you know what I’m saying?’ – CeeLo Green

‘I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent – things I’d never thought about before.’ – Ezra Koenig

‘I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn’t do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it.’ – Freddie Prinze, Jr.

‘There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.’ – Amy Ryan

‘The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.’ – John Ensign

‘Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.’ – Judd Gregg

‘Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don’t have anything to do with health care.’ – Russ Feingold

‘People don’t trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘I have been working since I was 20, and I’m 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20’s making $10,000 a year.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.’ – Kay Granger

‘The highest-income Americans don’t need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.’ – Steven Rattner

‘Insurance companies don’t make anything.’ – James Dyson

‘There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family’s health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.’ – Eric Ries

‘As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.’ – Eric Ries

‘Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family’s access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.’ – Eric Ries

‘Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them – making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.’ – John B. Larson

‘Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.’ – Andrew Weil

‘American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.’ – Andrew Weil

‘You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It’s funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn’t go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.’ – Josh Turner

‘The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families and businesses; increased transfer payments, like unemployment insurance; and increased direct government spending, like infrastructure investment.’ – Christina Romer

‘I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.’ – Grant Bowler

‘Turning God into some kind of celestial insurance policy is just mental.’ – Justin Welby

‘My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.’ – Lorrie Moore

‘When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn’t expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘For me, to find a place that doesn’t have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature – places where the adventure-travel trips can’t go because they can’t get any liability insurance.’ – Tim Cahill

‘What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.’ – John Barrasso

‘I don’t want anybody between a doctor and a patient – not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.’ – John Barrasso

‘For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.’ – John Barrasso

‘As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama’s unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.’ – John Barrasso

‘The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.’ – John Roberts

‘XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.’ – Mike McGavick

‘The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection – along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control – opens up a set of problems that I’m sure its sponsors have not fully considered.’ – Richard Carmona

‘Of course, plenty of people don’t think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.’ – James Surowiecki

‘Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.’ – James Surowiecki

‘Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they’re not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.’ – James Surowiecki

‘Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It’s remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.’ – James Surowiecki

‘From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.’ – Joel Salatin

‘I feel I’m doing God’s work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.’ – Paul Zane Pilzer

‘Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like ‘independent operators.’ I think people who are technically ’employees’ have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.’ – Steven Pressfield

‘An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.’ – Gary Hamel

‘You’d be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.’ – John Paul DeJoria

‘As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.’ – Gail Collins

‘Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It’s got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers’ comp. And God help you if you’re poor and mentally ill.’ – Gail Collins

‘As the wonderful agony begins for 1964-65, I sometimes wonder why I do it. I’ve got an insurance business going on the side, and it is starting to grow nicely. Selling insurance fulfills me, in a way, like basketball. But basketball keeps calling me back. I suppose I’ll play until I can’t keep up with the kids any longer.’ – Tom Heinsohn

‘I’m a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.’ – Ike Barinholtz

‘I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.’ – Adam Hasner

‘All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.’ – Lysander Spooner

‘Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life… Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they’re getting their money back. So it isn’t selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.’ – Richard Lamm

‘If competition for Kaggle’s top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds – we hope the world’s best data scientists will earn more than $50 million per year, just like the world’s best hedge fund managers.’ – Anthony Goldbloom

‘I know what it’s like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.’ – Gabriel Iglesias

‘To me, regardless of who’s in office, the government is strangled by business. And the government’s priorities are dictated by business. I mean, why does America, even after healthcare reform, still not have free universal healthcare? I’m sure it has something to do with the insurance lobby.’ – Andrew Dominik

‘Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman’s insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘I’ve never been able to sky-dive, and I’ve always wanted to. I’ve probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won’t let me do it.’ – Nick Cannon

‘The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care ‘reform,’ but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.’ – Eric Topol

‘People who are in a position of finding out that they’re at risk for some illness, whether it’s breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information – even though it might be useful to them – because of fears that they’ll lose their health insurance or their job.’ – Francis Collins

‘Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.’ – Howard Rheingold

‘Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.’ – Irwin Redlener

‘Having insurance doesn’t guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.’ – Irwin Redlener

‘I don’t act because I love doing it, I act because it’s my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It’s a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different… the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.’ – Clint Howard

‘I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.’ – Kevin O’Leary

‘I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.’ – Shiv Khera

‘In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.’ – Mike Pence

‘I didn’t want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.’ – Steven Wright

‘There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.’ – Michael Moore

‘The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don’t make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don’t pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor’s appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don’t make any money.’ – Michael Moore

‘Back in the late ’90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called ‘The Awful Truth’ for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy’s life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?’ – Michael Moore

‘Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they’re supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.’ – Michael Moore

‘I went without health insurance until ‘Roger & Me,’ basically – from about age 20 till about age 35. With ‘Roger & Me,’ I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I’ve had excellent health care managed by the union.’ – Michael Moore

‘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.’ – Angela Braly

‘I have nightmares that I’m going to wake up, and everyone’s driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we’re all getting health insurance.’ – Kid Rock

‘Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.’ – Douglas Rushkoff

‘The first time I was paparazzi’d, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.’ – Portia de Rossi

‘I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.’ – Howard Schultz

‘If you’re healthy, if you don’t get sick much, if you don’t go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It’s just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can’t do or what they must or must not do.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘What is Obamacare doing? It’s destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can’t find a replacement because it’s too expensive.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It’s about statism. It’s about expanding the government. It’s about control over the population. It is about everything but health care.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘If we can have record high unemployment, record job loss, and just an absolutely anemic economic recovery because of Obama’s policies, and he’s not blamed for it, what makes anybody think he’s gonna get blamed when an insurance company starts doubling their premiums?’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.’ – Magic Johnson

‘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.’ – Rusty Schweickart

‘Before, it was always, ‘Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.’ Now it’s, ‘Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.’ But I’m still the same basic middle-class slob.’ – Tom Clancy

‘My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I’ve never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.’ – Don Rickles

‘It’s like, hmm, there’s people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don’t have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.’ – Chris Rock

‘If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs.’ – Temple Grandin

‘If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it’s usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.’ – Paul Farmer

‘Structured settlements are a common way for people who have been injured to receive an insurance payout. The periodic payments provide ongoing income and reduce the risk of blowing a lump sum through poor financial choices.’ – Suze Orman

‘I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document.’ – Suze Orman

‘While a reverse mortgage can indeed be a viable way to generate income, it is very important to understand that after you take out a reverse mortgage, you will still be responsible for paying the property tax, the insurance premium, and all the maintenance costs for your home.’ – Suze Orman

‘If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year’s insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet most organizations fail to make health a cultural priority. Instead, they treat healthcare like any other expense.’ – Tom Rath

‘We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.’ – Monica Crowley

‘We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.’ – Monica Crowley

‘My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she’d grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college – and then worked to put her brothers through school.’ – Robert Wilson

‘Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.’ – Adam McKay

‘The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage’s release. Freelancers most often had none.’ – Amanda Lindhout

‘Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.’ – Howard Graham Buffett

‘Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.’ – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

‘Health care’s not about insurance! Health care’s about getting treatment.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America’s kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.’ – Richard Lamm

‘Investing in renter’s insurance is hugely worthwhile. It protects you from a whole load of financial pitfalls around your home. Your home should be the center of your sense of security – not the cause of you losing financial security.’ – Alexa Von Tobel

‘You don’t want to move in with someone and find out that they don’t have auto or health insurance. That’s a rude awakening.’ – Laura Wasser

‘Here’s where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.’ – Alex Gibney

‘Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.’ – Alex Gibney

‘Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.’ – Clive Thompson

‘I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.’ – Derek Kilmer

‘Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control without paying out of pocket. This lets women make the health care decisions that are right for them and puts every one of us in charge of our own reproductive health.’ – Ann McLane Kuster

‘I had panels – roundtables in the district – and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can’t get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.’ – Sander Levin

‘Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus.’ – Sander Levin

‘Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections – siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can’t afford that.’ – Sander Levin

‘Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.’ – Jerrold Nadler

‘Let’s drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won’t settle for less.’ – Jerrold Nadler

‘We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won’t get needed care if we don’t increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.’ – Jeff Merkley

‘Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can’t afford coverage or their insurance doesn’t cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families.’ – Jeff Merkley

‘My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality’s nice. You never get bored. You can’t say the grass is always greener if you’re in both backyards.’ – Hilarie Burton

‘I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.’ – Jim McGovern

‘Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.’ – Hank Johnson

‘I’ve tried open-ended jobs and found myself incredibly unhappy. I don’t like the monomania of showing up every day and doing the same thing. I don’t know where my next cheque is coming from, I don’t know where my next job is coming from, I have really sketchy health insurance, but I need variety in my life.’ – Julie Klausner

‘A few drugs – such as beta-blockers, statins and glycogen control medications – have proved very effective at managing hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and strokes. Most insurance plans charge something for them. Why not make drugs like these free? Not for everyone, but just the groups for whom they are provably effective.’ – Sendhil Mullainathan

‘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.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The real problem with Obamacare has little to do with the number of people signing up, and a lot to do with the restrictions on insurance companies and reimbursement rates to doctors.’ – Ben Shapiro

‘In order for Obamacare’s cost structure to work, millions of Americans must sign up to pay inflated prices; that would help pay for the subsidies to cover insurance company costs on those with pre-existing conditions.’ – Ben Shapiro

‘President Obama’s respect for the Constitution does not extend to freedom of religion – his administration has forced religious businessowners to pay for insurance plans that cover activities in violation of religious precepts.’ – Ben Shapiro

‘When Obamacare actually kicked in, just as we knew, if you liked your insurance, as I did – I had a health savings account – then I wasn’t going to be able to keep it because it doesn’t meet the requirements.’ – Louie Gohmert

‘Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.’ – Jan C. Ting

‘I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.’ – Brad Schneider

‘In ‘Leverage,’ I don’t really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator.’ – Timothy Hutton

‘I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.’ – Grace Hightower

‘With interest rates rising, gold doesn’t pay an interest rate, but every other currency – it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold.’ – Lloyd Blankfein

‘I’ve heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.’ – Tom Perez

‘I grew up on a farm. I didn’t have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn’t even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.’ – Marlin Stutzman

‘Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.’ – Tim Walberg

‘The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It’s better-off.’ – Timothy Noah

‘The Democratic Party believes that health insurance is a social responsibility of the nation. I believe that health insurance is an individual responsibility. And that’s a really hard philosophy to mesh.’ – Raul Labrador

‘Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.’ – Lisa Gansky

‘RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.’ – Lisa Gansky

‘I started with commercials – for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called ‘Satellite’ that did well in festivals.’ – Stephanie Szostak

‘The studio is spending great amounts of money, and they want some insurance they will get money back. They go for the middle of the road, broad in appeal. It’s restrictive. It’s a constant struggle, but if you give in, you’re just making cottage cheese, and that’s the end of it.’ – Brian Helgeland

‘HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.’ – Alex Berenson

‘You don’t train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.’ – Malcolm Gladwell

‘What’s more difficult than knowing there’s an effective treatment for your children, but you can’t afford to offer it to them because it’s not covered by insurance?’ – Elizabeth Emken

‘Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn’t go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘I have gone above and beyond to care for my child, including an agreed upon monthly stipend, a house, a car, insurance, school and other essentials for the baby and his mother as well as many other things, including toys and clothing.’ – Robinson Cano

‘When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You’d see all the different ways they’d work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You’d see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you’d go see Aetna life insurance.’ – Gabe Newell

‘My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.’ – Barry Hannah

‘Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.’ – Robert Reich

‘The curious thing is Americans don’t mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that’s the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.’ – Robert Reich

‘I’m a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days. I watched Hillary Clinton on the news the other day, and I got choked up by Hillary Clinton.’ – Ike Barinholtz

‘Even when I was a teen model, I didn’t think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.’ – Tyra Banks

‘We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can’t afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don’t have health insurance.’ – John Edwards

‘When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.’ – Spalding Gray

‘My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.’ – Annette Bening

‘I think it’s a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they’re afraid. They say, ‘Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I’m scared. Please stop this from happening.” – Ted Cruz

‘The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.’ – Ted Cruz

‘Obamacare was very attractive, particularly to those without health insurance.’ – Mitt Romney

‘Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.’ – Mitt Romney

‘People don’t want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.’ – Mitt Romney

‘The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans.’ – David Green

‘I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.’ – Wendy Long

‘I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.’ – Allyson Schwartz

‘Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.’ – Alex Newell

‘I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.’ – Gary Johnson

‘There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job – they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?’ – Peter Diamandis

‘Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies – not all of them, but many of them – ‘gender-rate.’ Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘I pay for homeowner’s insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.’ – Charles Comiskey

‘With Zipcar, consumers avoid the upfront cost of buying a car, not to mention gas, insurance, and repairs. Plus, they reduce the number of polluting vehicles on the road. Suddenly the planet-smart carless option is also the convenient money-saving option.’ – Lynn Jurich

‘We’re trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation’s health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.’ – Steven Burd

‘In our experience at Safeway, we’re confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.’ – Steven Burd

‘We’ve been paying for 100 percent of preventive care. But if you’re not getting annual physicals, then you’re not going to gain a financial incentive, so effectively your insurance premium with us will go up.’ – Steven Burd

‘Big data has been used by human beings for a long time – just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.’ – Jose Ferreira

‘If you know your life chances are greatly reduced, should you be in a position to take out life insurance if that knowledge is not available to the insurers?’ – David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

‘The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn’t afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn’t afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.’ – Benjamin Booker

‘Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.’ – Rand Paul

‘What is problematic about Obamacare is that it is killing millions of jobs in this country and has killed millions of jobs. It has forced millions of people into part time work. It has caused millions of people to lose their insurance, to lose their doctors, and to face skyrocketing insurance premiums. That is unacceptable.’ – Ted Cruz

‘A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine.’ – Rick Smolan

‘I started out when I was 29 – too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.’ – Alan Furst

‘There’s nothing fun about stuff like estate planning, getting mammograms, or talking to a guy about long term disability insurance, but do it anyway. Trust me, the stress of not having done the above is prematurely aging.’ – Jen Lancaster

‘After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.’ – Jen Lancaster

‘Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care.’ – Sri Mulyani Indrawati

‘On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it’s good, they say, ‘Let’s do another one for insurance.” – Rhys Ifans

‘My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta’s parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means ‘happy water’ in Hebrew.’ – Melanie Mayron

‘An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop – after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘Obamacare is socialism? Nope – as insurance companies vie to sell new policies, competition within private industry is growing rapidly, with the number of participating insurers growing by 26 percent between 2014 and 2015, and the number of products they offer growing by 66 percent.’ – Kurt Eichenwald

‘In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.’ – Tim O’Brien

‘My father believed a real man didn’t read, and my parents hoped I’d get some sense and find a job in insurance.’ – Ken Bruen

‘If we were to expand Medicaid, for every uninsured person we would cover, we’d kick more than one person out of private insurance or remove their opportunity to get private insurance. We’re going to have too many people in the cart rather than pulling the cart.’ – Bobby Jindal

‘A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, ‘No.” – Bernie Sanders

‘Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a ‘moral’ objection to it.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘In 2008, I was one of millions united for hope and change. As 2010 dawns, change looks to me like more of the same. Instead of peace, we got more war. Instead of health care reform, we have an industry win that requires Americans to buy health insurance without any real cost controls.’ – Jodie Evans

‘I look, absolutely, like I’m going to sell you insurance.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘We try to create a situation where we’re the casino. It’s like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What’s the path to least risk? What’s the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?’ – Billy Beane

‘Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance.’ – Nina Easton

‘With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.’ – Kate Christensen

‘Look at timber prices in the late ’90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.’ – Jochen Zeitz

‘I am every single day talking with and working with people in my district who are seeing their health care insurance costs go up five times, 105 percent, 300 percent, that are getting pay cuts, that are losing 40-hour workweeks, that are having to work two and three jobs.’ – Marsha Blackburn

‘My mom sent me money for a car, but the cops impounded it because I had no insurance.’ – Martin Henderson

‘Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs – like Medicare and crop insurance – that also benefit the rich.’ – Alex Pareene

‘Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies.’ – Jean Chatzky

‘Once you’re retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your nest egg, you’re done with disability insurance. At that point, though, the need for long-term care insurance – which protects you from spending that nest egg too fast – takes over.’ – Jean Chatzky

‘When you’re setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses – your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one.’ – Jean Chatzky

‘I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I’m going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account.’ – Mark Billingham

‘We know there is real interest from the American public in having easy access to the new, affordable choices in the Health Insurance Marketplace.’ – Todd Park

‘DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What will it mean when we can be sure we’re not all born equal? Worked out, the implications will scare a lot of people. Insurance companies will not want to cover those with a genetic predisposition to illness, for example. Here lurk myriad lawsuits.’ – Gregory Benford

‘I believe there is not any big difference between any consumer business, whether it’s a bank or insurance or vodka or chocolate, whatever it is.’ – Roustam Tariko

‘Insurance companies as they exist today are going to be eliminated.’ – Neal Patterson

‘If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you’ve ever imagined facing at work.’ – Michael A. Stackpole

‘Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master’s of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.’ – Gina Barreca

‘First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.’ – Ted Cruz

‘We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.’ – Ted Cruz

‘We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.’ – Ted Cruz

‘For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.’ – Gary Weiss

‘Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I’m keeping it. I daren’t eat such a work of art. It’s so unique and so fun that fans do that. It’s incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don’t spend the same amount of time on my brother who’s an insurance broker.’ – Barrett Foa

‘We’re going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We’re going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women’s Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance companies from discriminating against the health care needs of women.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘New Yorkers have been fortunate to have Andrew Cuomo as our Attorney General – protecting working New Yorkers against the banks, insurance companies and big corporations.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘My mother is a Senior Casualty Claims Specialist I, which in layman’s terms means the head insurance adjuster!’ – Ciara Renee

‘You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo – the IRS.’ – Paul LePage

‘Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time – which is very few of us – will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!’ – Nate Powell

‘We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.’ – John Barrasso

‘I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.’ – John Barrasso

‘The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.’ – John Barrasso

‘Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.’ – John Barrasso

‘If you ask people, ‘What do you think, should we kick kids off their family insurance policy in that 21- to 26-year-old age range?’ You go through those… provisions that are already affecting the everyday lives of Americans, and people don’t want to get rid of them.’ – Tim Kaine

‘When people are left out, we’re naturally going to focus on that, if it’s 47 million people who don’t have health insurance, if it’s 23,000 people who die every year because they lack access to health care for something that’s easily treatable.’ – Tim Kaine

‘Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not.’ – Sherrod Brown

‘I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.’ – Anderson Paak

‘Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agency so big banks can’t cheat people. We fought, we won, and we improved the lives of millions of people – thank you, President Obama!’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘London is the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation, the location of the largest insurance market, and houses a significant ship-broking community, apart from the many other professional services related to shipping.’ – Helmut Sohmen

‘Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how the company can invest to prevent further escalation in societal health care costs.’ – John Quelch

‘The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious… This administration simply doesn’t get it.’ – Rob Portman

‘We think healthcare costs should be going down, not up. We think people should be able to keep insurance that they had.’ – Rob Portman

‘Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let’s expand choice rather than limiting it. Let’s create jobs instead of destroying them. And let’s bring down the costs instead of driving them up.’ – Rob Portman

‘In September 2008 – as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world’s biggest insurance company, accepted a federal bailout – Senator John McCain of Arizona, in what was widely viewed as a political move, suspended his presidential campaign and called on Obama to rush back to Washington for a bipartisan meeting at the White House.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

‘Bringing back something akin to Glass-Steagall would clearly help limit risk in the system. And that’s a very good and worthy goal. Letting banks sell securities and insurance products and services allowed them to grow too big too fast and fueled a culture that put profit and pay over prudence.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

”Marriage’ was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I’m married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love.’ – Rebecca Traister

‘Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an important source of northern profit, as was the already exploding slave trade in the Caribbean and South America. Banks capitalized the slave trade, and insurance companies underwrote it.’ – Greg Grandin

‘I’m one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that’s their solution?’ – Gary Johnson

‘Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation’s unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.’ – Blake Farenthold

‘My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation’s annual report on health insurance coverage.’ – Blake Farenthold

‘In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.’ – Blake Farenthold

‘Like millions of other Americans, I receive health insurance through my employer.’ – Jeff Duncan

‘Unfortunately, the health care bill commonly referred to as ObamaCare is making it more difficult for employers to provide insurance to their employees. It limits individuals’ ability to pick their own doctors and, over time, decreases the quality of care we provide in this country.’ – Jeff Duncan

‘Despite my fierce opposition to the bill, I signed up for insurance through the exchanges and instructed my staff do the same.’ – Jeff Duncan

‘When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.’ – Ted Deutch

‘I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid.’ – Ron DeSantis

‘I think the federal flood insurance program is actuarially unsound and renders private insurance not viable, thereby needing an overhaul going forward.’ – Ron DeSantis

‘Growing our economy means supporting our small businesses, and one straightforward way to do this is to help business owners with the cost of health insurance for their workers.’ – Suzan DelBene

‘The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America’s insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.’ – Bill Flores

‘If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mortar of bureaucracy of the VA? Why can’t you give them an insurance card and let them go to a health care provider of their choice?’ – Bill Flores

‘Thousands of people in my district need health insurance, and ACA is helping them. I’m committed to do everything I can to help people get enrolled and get covered, and that includes moving needed reforms for the bill and helping people find affordable coverage.’ – Joe Garcia

‘In some cases, corporations engaged in this activity have as much as 16 percent of their profits generated through the holding of ‘janitor’s insurance.” – Gene Green

‘The health care law’s individual mandate forces nearly all individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. The mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the law because it is the primary mechanism through which the law’s changes are supported. Without the mandate, the law collapses.’ – Tim Griffin

‘Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.’ – Anne Wojcicki

‘I don’t believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there’s no reason we shouldn’t do that.’ – Liz Cheney

‘Unfortunately, I’ve got airplanes that I can’t even afford to use today that are sitting there. I’m still paying insurance on them; I’m still paying payments.’ – Robby Gordon

‘There’s lots of people driving on the roads who don’t have licenses. They’re still going to work, still going to school. I want them to get a license and insurance so they’re driving safely.’ – Gina Raimondo

‘Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service.’ – Robert Zubrin

‘I’m okay with the path that I’m on, but it’s fascinating to think, ‘I could’ve been a gay guy in Key West. I could be working at an insurance company in Lansing. But somehow, this is what’s happening.” – Josh Malerman

‘Getting people health insurance is a good thing, and that’s what Tom Stemberg fought for.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I oppose Obamacare and believe it has failed. It drove up premiums, took insurance away from people who were promised otherwise, and usurped state programs.’ – Mitt Romney

‘It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need.’ – Elaine Chao

‘I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, health insurance cards, and a Burke Williams card for when I want to go to the spa!’ – Aja Naomi King

‘A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.’ – Brad Feld

‘In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don’t have decent health insurance – or any health insurance at all.’ – Theresa Rebeck

‘One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren’t into the Hollywood scene, they don’t read ‘US Weekly’ or anything like that. They give me space. They don’t care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.’ – Jack McBrayer

‘Coming up with a ballpark figure on how much you need to pay your expenses, such as your mortgage or rent, insurance, and utilities, is the first place to start when developing your ultimate goal of becoming a multimillionaire.’ – John Rampton

‘There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.’ – Katherine Dunn

‘Proprietary trading does not belong in banks with FDIC insurance.’ – Steve Mnuchin

‘The amazing thing about IBM is that it’s a company where I have had 10 different careers – local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.’ – Ginni Rometty

‘For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.’ – Karan Johar

‘I have a daughter for a while that didn’t have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance.’ – Rick Santelli

‘High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance, or whose substandard plans provide minimum coverage. That’s why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It provides quality health insurance to both the uninsured and underinsured.’ – Bob Beckel

‘We have all these politicians that claim they’re pro-life and that say women should not be able to get abortions and all this other stuff… there’s nothing more pro-life than helping a woman who wants to have a child have a child. Then I realized that health insurance doesn’t cover IVF.’ – Remy Ma

‘When someone has to go to the hospital because they don’t have insurance – and by the way, I think the insurance companies should be out of the mix altogether – but when someone needs health care, and they don’t have the ability to pay for it, in our communities, we end up paying for it one way or the other.’ – Mark Cuban

‘A moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technology, seems a natural component of a policy to address rising inequality. Revenue could be targeted toward wage insurance, to help people replaced by new technology make the transition to a different career.’ – Robert J. Shiller

‘Tens of millions of Americans are modern-day slaves – unable to retire early, or working in jobs they don’t really want, just for the health insurance they need to take care of themselves, a spouse, or a child with a ‘preexisting condition.” – Paul Zane Pilzer

‘A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.’ – Adam Cohen

‘If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.’ – Ken Liu

‘We shouldn’t be bailing out insurance companies under ObamaCare.’ – Steve Scalise

‘Many people who have insurance can’t even use it because they have $10,000 or higher deductibles. This is something families are facing all across the nation. They’ve asked for relief; this was front and center on President Trump’s agenda and our agenda in Congress, and we’re moving forward on it.’ – Steve Scalise

‘Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘We were promised we could keep our healthcare plans. We were promised that Obamacare would not raise middle class taxes. Instead, the law brought the American people rising premiums, unaffordable deductibles, fewer insurance choices, and higher taxes. We were let down.’ – Ronna McDaniel

‘I want to say something in a tough-love kind of way about crop insurance. Let’s face it: You don’t buy insurance on your house hoping it will burn down. Neither do we want to buy crop insurance and hope our crop fails so we can file.’ – Sonny Perdue

‘We have to get out of the mindset that, ‘If I invest $1 in crop insurance, I want to make sure I get a $1.10 or plus out of that.” – Sonny Perdue

‘My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.’ – Laura Harrier

‘To get health insurance, you give up your dignity – that’s what I thought being an actor was. So when ‘GLOW’ came along, I was shaking reading it because I hadn’t really allowed myself to dream of a show like this.’ – Betty Gilpin

‘We have always said that over the medium and long term, we will disinvest some part of our holding in our major subsidiary companies, and life insurance is our largest subsidiary company.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn’t help people with diseases related to mental illness.’ – Marti Noxon

‘The way the law is written, people who are under 250 percent of poverty, who have a marketplace plan, also are eligible to have some of their deductible and co-pay expenses paid through cost-sharing. Insurance companies basically front the money and are reimbursed by the federal government, by HHS.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘The secretary actually already has a good deal of authority within the confines of the Affordable Care Act. Step one really is a question of whether or not HHS will continue to reimburse insurance companies for cost-sharing expenses.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘Republican House members, including Tom Price, when he was still in the Republican House, sued HHS, suggesting that payment to insurance companies for cost-sharing exceeded the authority of HHS. That case was basically withdrawn when President Trump was elected, in hopes that the Affordable Care Act would be repealed – but we’re back to the law.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘I’m a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘The Democratic plan in the ‘Affordable Care Act’ has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘We need to make sure that people get good adequate health care that’s not necessarily tied to their insurance, that’s not mandated, that’s not taxed.’ – Ron Estes

‘Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.’ – John McCain

‘I remember I was really, really proud the first moment I got my insurance and also just going in to get my SAG card and filling out the form and realizing I was a member of all the unions I could be a part of as an actor. It was a really fulfilling experience for me.’ – Matt Bomer

‘Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.’ – Alexandra Petri

‘A credit derivative, at its core, is actually a very simple concept… The simplest way to think of a credit derivative is it is analogous to insurance against the risk of a credit default by your counterparty, your business counterpart.’ – Blythe Masters

‘I can’t speak for every woman, but my birth control is covered by my insurance, and if it weren’t covered, it would cost $9 a month. I don’t know a lot of women who can’t afford $9 a month.’ – Tomi Lahren

‘Yes, I have benefited from the ObamaCare provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26.’ – Tomi Lahren

‘Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail – all commercial and social verticals are going digital – including money itself.’ – Max Keiser

‘Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safety net protections like workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance.’ – Tom Perez

‘We want to make sure that we take care of people that most need healthcare, make sure they actually get healthcare instead of just an insurance policy that means they can’t access the doctor they want.’ – Luther Strange

‘Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.’ – Jared Polis

‘Traditional consumer banking will come under extreme pressure as its central deposit-taking and lending functions are challenged by online savings vehicles, crowdfunding, and loan syndicating by such nontraditional competitors as insurance companies, pension and hedge funds.’ – James P. Gorman

‘We recognize the significant burden on patients from continued, rising insurance premiums and being forced increasingly to pay the full list price for medicines at the pharmacy counter.’ – Heather Bresch

‘We’ve got people that are paying premiums of $1,000 a month out there, and then they’ve got a deductible of $1,000. If you’re making $40,000, $50,000, $60,000 out there and you’ve got an Obamacare plan, by and large you’ve got an insurance card, but you don’t have any care because you can’t afford the deductible.’ – Tom Price

‘We need a significant amount of market stability, not for the insurance companies, but to ensure patients can get access to the care they want.’ – Tom Price

‘There are going to be counties across this country that won’t have any insurance company providing coverage.’ – Tom Price

‘The more we turn down questionable offers like trip insurance and scrutinize ‘one month’ trials, the less incentive companies will have to use such schemes.’ – Richard Thaler

‘I can’t predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we’re on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.’ – Ted Yoho

‘There are deep value opportunities in insurance stocks, which were beaten down because of their exposure to the subprime crisis, annuities, and commercial real estate.’ – Wilbur Ross

‘Mortgage insurance stocks remained depressed through the end of 2012 amid lingering uncertainty as to whether they had sufficient capital to absorb losses on delinquent loans originated before the crisis. However, as house prices began to recover, losses started to decline.’ – John Paulson

‘Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘I’ve been denied coverage two times in my life – and it’s after I’ve been in a big successful rock band. And I’ve a lot of met people who’ve been denied coverage who don’t have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn’t have to do that.’ – Mike McCready

‘Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either couldn’t afford the premiums or couldn’t afford the copay.’ – Mick Mulvaney

‘Do you really think that Social Security disability insurance is part of what people think of when they think of Social Security? I don’t think so. It’s the fastest-growing program. It grew tremendously under President Obama. It’s a very wasteful program, and we want to try and fix that.’ – Mick Mulvaney

‘We need people to go to work. If you’re on food stamps, and you’re able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you’re on disability insurance and you’re not supposed to be, you’re not truly disabled; we need you to go back to work.’ – Mick Mulvaney

‘At my pregnant wife’s behest, I took the job for the paycheck and the health insurance, and it turned into ‘Sharknado.’ I couldn’t have played this better if I’d wanted to. It’s really captured the imagination of sci-fi fans.’ – Ian Ziering

‘As an actor, I get my insurance from the Screen Actor’s Guild by union, and you have to make so much every year to get that type 1 insurance.’ – Ian Ziering

‘We don’t have the necessary laws or powers to deal with failing non-bank institutions. If they’re a big bank, the depositor has deposit insurance, and the regulators can wind them down without throwing them into bankruptcy.’ – Henry Paulson

‘I’ve got to say our banking system is a safe and a sound one. And since the days when we’ve had federal deposit insurance in place, we haven’t had a depositor who’s got less than $100,000 in an account lose a penny. So the American people can be very, very confident about their accounts in our banking system.’ – Henry Paulson

‘You might not want to go without essential health benefits or lose consumer protections if an insurance company many states away denies your claim or goes belly-up.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘Americans need access to affordable, reliable health insurance. They want President Trump to take responsibility and work to ensure their continued access to their insurance – creating certainty and affordability, not confusion and chaos.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘Our goal should be to, together, to improve Obamacare so that even more people have access to affordable, quality health insurance and services.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘Since the Affordable Care Act allows individuals to buy affordable health care coverage on their own, women no longer have to remain in a job just for the health insurance – they can feel free to start their own business or care for a child or elderly parent.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘Before Obamacare, only 12% of individual insurance plans covered maternity plans. Even without that important benefit, women were charged up to 48% more than men for the same benefit package.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘Republicans who oppose Obamacare have a responsibility to show that they can do better – not return us to the days when insurance companies alone decided who to cover for what benefits at what price. Otherwise, they should move beyond the repeal fights of the past, accept Obamacare as the law of the land, and work with us to make real improvements.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘It’s beyond shameful this House can pass trillions of dollars in tax breaks for those with the most security but not see it to provide its way, see its way to provide health insurance for the children most in need.’ – Brad Schneider

‘There’s another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.’ – Raja Krishnamoorthi

‘Getting the care for a common cold, migraine, or high blood pressure can and should be easy, whether one has an insurance card or not.’ – Danny K. Davis

‘Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.’ – Danny K. Davis

‘It is important to remember the purpose of health care reform: to make sure Americans have access to quality, affordable health care – especially those individuals who were being denied by their insurance companies because they weren’t profitable customers.’ – Bill Foster

‘I value my education, but I cannot put a value on it. I know it has been worth some money to me – I don’t think ‘The Post’ would have hired me if I had lacked a degree – but I probably could have earned about the same if I had stayed in the insurance business, where I worked while going to college at night.’ – Richard Cohen

‘Leveraging cloud, mobility, you process things in a different way. For example, in insurance, you can access more claims through cloud, which makes a big difference in emerging markets, where the populations are large.’ – Pierre Nanterme

‘A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge – meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck from their own poor judgment of character.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘Insurance suffers traditionally from a lack of contact with customers.’ – Thomas Buberl

‘In global health, emergency vaccine stockpiles are like the insurance policy you never really wanted to take out: you resent the cost and have mixed feelings about never making a claim. Moreover, given that a stockpile is often a last resort, if you ever fall back on it, you have, in some way, already failed.’ – Seth Berkley

‘When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.’ – Angus Deaton

‘The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care… They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.’ – Angus Deaton

‘My father ran an insurance company, but he passed away when I was 8. My mother was an economist working for the government of Liberia. But both my grandmothers were entrepreneurs in rural West Africa.’ – Richelieu Dennis

‘Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense.’ – Jeb Hensarling

‘I’ll tell you who I really like – the lawyer Imran Khan. I did my dissertation on stop-and-search powers, and I put in loads of quotes from him. Years later, when I was selling insurance over in Harley Street, he rang up and asked for insurance. He told me his name, and I asked him if he was the lawyer, and he said yes.’ – Adeel Akhtar

‘After I finished university and started going to auditions again, and I also did a bunch of other jobs. I worked in the insurance industry, the digital media industry; I worked in a financial services company for three years.’ – Clare-Hope Ashitey

‘If the private insurance market can survive in a context of a public option, good for them. But if they can’t, then that will tell you something about the nature of the market.’ – Brian Schatz

‘Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent allied with Democrats, has championed Medicare for All, which would give every American coverage through the federal health insurance program for seniors. Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow wants Medicare coverage for anyone over the age of 55.’ – Brian Schatz

‘In the very near future, I guarantee that the pictures you post on social media will affect your credit rating, health and auto insurance policies, and much more. It will all happen automatically. In a very real way, our rights and freedoms will be modulated by our metadata signatures. What’s at stake, obviously, is the future of the human race!’ – Trevor Paglen

‘Insurance brokers make way too much money for the value they provide.’ – Parker Conrad

‘Great sauces are like an insurance policy for venison roasts, which can easily overcook or dry out. Beyond their ability to rescue, however, is the power to elevate.’ – Jonathan Miles

‘Quite honestly, one of the unavoidable considerations in going exclusive with any company is being put on a company’s medical insurance program.’ – George Perez

‘What we need are different types of insurance, some of which have copays, some that have coinsurance, but they need to offer a better first layer of coverage.’ – Ron Williams

‘After much reflection, I have concluded that the federal individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014, will not be upheld.’ – Ron Williams

‘We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance.’ – Ron Williams

‘I’ve been on record since 2005 saying we need to find a way to eliminate the use of the pre-existing condition. The way to do that is really to get everyone in the insurance pool, and that way, we’ll have people who need health services today, some who need it tomorrow, and some who won’t need it for quite some time.’ – Ron Williams

‘Younger participants in the exchanges and who purchase individual insurance paid more, and they just didn’t see the value, and therefore, they did not come forward and sign up.’ – Ron Williams

‘I think if we’re going to have a requirement that everyone have equal access to insurance, you really have to have a way to make certain that everyone is expected to participate.’ – Ron Williams

‘If an individual sticks up a bank and walks off with $25,000, there are consequences. If someone who really could have had an insurance policy consumes $25,000 worth of health care, everyone else pays for that.’ – Ron Williams

‘The ACA’s reliance on mandatory participation in exchanges as the only way to obtain a health insurance subsidy is fundamentally flawed.’ – Ron Williams

‘The ACA – popularly known as ‘Obamacare’ – has been an important step forward toward an admirable goal: providing access to health insurance for all Americans. But like many reforms generated by the political process, the ACA is problematic.’ – Ron Williams

‘King v. Burwell pointed at but did not directly challenge the ACA’s most essential weakness: Government-mandated participation in health insurance exchanges as a precondition to receiving a subsidy is not the best or most effective means of achieving its goal of expanded access to health coverage.’ – Ron Williams

‘There are several problems with the ACA’s reliance on means-based inclusion criteria and mandatory participation in exchanges – the complexity of the exchange mechanism, and the potential for income-based subsidies to become a disincentive to earn if insurance rates escalate for those beyond the income threshold.’ – Ron Williams

‘The basic premise of insurance is the pooling of funds from many to cover the costs of some. There are complicated methods for how to do this, but one fact remains consistent: For insurance to work well, people need to be in and stay in the insurance pool.’ – Ron Williams

‘For insurance solvency, ongoing plan participation is vital.’ – Ron Williams

‘Let’s just say I’m a believer in universal, single-payer healthcare insurance.’ – Charles Bock

”Dead peasants insurance’ is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.’ – John Lanchester

‘We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or ‘dead peasants insurance.’ As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.’ – John Lanchester

‘I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping – insurance agencies, nonprofits – and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn’t even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.’ – Amy Chozick

‘I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved.’ – O. T. Fagbenle

‘As I have always said, the ACA is not without flaws, and I welcome the opportunity to improve the law to make healthcare more affordable and ensure every American has quality health insurance.’ – Seth Moulton

‘Flooding is the costliest and most common cause of property damage, which is why federal flood insurance should be affordable and accessible to all.’ – Seth Moulton

‘Although I believe deeply that the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Community Health Center program are invaluable, I reject the notion that we cannot reauthorize these programs without plundering other equally vital programs.’ – Seth Moulton

‘I looked into putting ‘Doctor’ on my license. But the insurance premium is higher, so I don’t think I’ll bother.’ – John Tiffany

‘If Obama succeeds in turning health insurance and funding for college into universal entitlements, he will have expanded Washington’s obligations on the scale of an LBJ or an FDR.’ – Jacob Weisberg

‘The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.’ – Leon Russell

‘A lot of insurance companies don’t protect transgender people because they think it’s medically unnecessary, but we deserve to be covered, and this is life-saving treatment.’ – Jazz Jennings

‘One of the criticism I had about the Affordable Care Act is it made insurance so expensive that people who had it didn’t even use it because their premiums were high. Their deductibles were high. Their copays were high.’ – Dan Donovan

‘Obamacare has burdened New York families with unaffordable premiums, rendered some insurance plans unusable because of high deductibles, and caused people to lose their doctors.’ – Dan Donovan

‘Economically anxious, many parents see their children’s accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.’ – Alissa Quart

‘Health insurance costs in the United States are on an unsustainable path. I’ve heard from hundreds of Montanans who are paying thousands of dollars every year for their health insurance coverage and thousands more for deductibles before their insurance provides any benefit.’ – Matt Rosendale

‘Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and Washington politicians have failed to fix the problem.’ – Matt Rosendale

‘I advised the insurance companies to apply certain rate adjustments only to plans where the federal government provides assistance in order to save Montanans money and keep rates lower on other plans.’ – Matt Rosendale

‘The premise of insurance is to spread the risk. It’s the premise of homeowner’s insurance, of car insurance, and of health insurance. It’s one reason why it’s important to have insurance when you’re healthy, so that when you get sick, you won’t go sign up just when you get sick, because that increases the cost for everyone.’ – Jeanne Shaheen

‘In order for the E.U. area to stay together, they needed to form a banking union, which meant they needed to have a common credible deposit insurance guarantee for everybody in the E.U. area.’ – Athanasios Orphanides

‘My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.’ – Ann Dowd

‘It’s a fun uphill struggle, making health insurance as a comedian, actor, and author. But it’s hard to explain to people how I make a living. In New York, most people know enough creative types that I make some sense. But when I’m talking to someone like my suburban cousins or my mom’s friends, it doesn’t always go smoothly.’ – Chris Gethard

‘Every insurer must offer every individual a plan and ensure each patient with pre-existing conditions has access to ‘adequate and affordable health insurance coverage.” – Bill Cassidy

‘Even beyond policy considerations, Romneycare was a horrible model to suggest for the federal government because the Constitution does not give Congress the power to impose an individual insurance mandate.’ – Mike DeWine

‘As prime minister, I was conscious of walking in Whitlam’s footsteps as our government set about creating a companion to Medicare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme.’ – Julia Gillard

‘The national framework of social insurance – social security, unemployment and disability benefits, work programs, and workers’ compensation – protected citizens from the kinds of risks that private markets couldn’t or wouldn’t insure.’ – Ben Fountain

‘Issues like security threats, declining traffic, high insurance premiums, rising fuel costs, among others, call for individual strengths to be aligned towards regional stability.’ – Lucio Tan

‘I love Better Than Sex Mascara, and Shadow Insurance Eye Primer is superawesome.’ – Kat Von D

‘Let’s not kid ourselves about just how cheap offshore labor really is. We not only pay substantially less per hour: we also avoid the costs we would incur if these workers immigrated here. We don’t pay for their medical expenses when they show up in the emergency room without insurance.’ – Edward Conard

‘I pay higher premiums because my speeding points spell ‘recklessness’ to the insurance company, but you can’t imagine how risk-averse I am at the wheel. I only go over 30 at all because it’s dangerous to drive too much slower than everyone else.’ – Victoria Coren Mitchell

‘My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver’s education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco market. From the time I was really, really small, I went with him. Obviously, I didn’t get paid.’ – Kelvin Sampson

‘Investment in Shriram will actually enable us to enter some of the retail segments such as vehicle financing, consumer and gold loans, and other products such as insurance, mutual funds, among others, where we wanted to have a footprint.’ – Ajay Piramal

‘People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance – the list goes on. It might not always be explicit and in your face, but my residents know when they’re being mistreated.’ – Rashida Tlaib

‘Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to set auto insurance pricing compounds racial discrimination and exacerbates wealth inequality.’ – Rashida Tlaib

‘An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance.’ – Abby Johnson

‘Obamacare does not allow patients to buy insurance across state lines, which would dramatically increase competition and lower costs. It does not allow small business-associated health plans. It limits low-cost health savings accounts options.’ – Stephen Moore

‘Ex-Im Bank doles out billions of dollars of loans and insurance subsidies every year and has become the poster child for corporate cronyism in Washington. Think of the bank as food stamps for America’s Fortune 500 companies.’ – Stephen Moore

‘In a world without an Ex-Im Bank, which finances just 2 percent of U.S. exports, private firms would provide the insurance and credit these companies need, but at market rates that reflect risk of default.’ – Stephen Moore

‘Where is special category status? Where is women’s reservation bill? Where is the farmers’ insurance? Why did Odisha not receive any cooperation and help from the Centre?’ – Naveen Patnaik

‘Hospitals feel like they need to increase prices to make up for treating patients that don’t pay their bills or that are not having insurance supporting them.’ – Mikhail Varshavski

‘We must maintain strong building codes, strengthen flood insurance programs, and forcefully acknowledge the reality that rising sea temperatures caused by made-man climate change are negatively impacting our way of life. This should be a bipartisan task that finds support with bipartisan solutions.’ – Patrick Murphy

‘Obamacare imposed an unprecedented level of regulation and standardization on individual-market health insurance all across America. This has left many consumers in an intolerable predicament – in some cases, having to spend up to a third or even half of their income on premiums and deductibles before insurance kicks in.’ – Alex Azar

‘Association health plans will actually bring down the cost of insurance.’ – Alex Azar

‘The Medicare program is a great promise we’ve made to our seniors. But if you start expanding that out to everybody else, you’re going to undermine the employer insurance market.’ – Alex Azar

‘Who of us has not had that situation where you’ve got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, ‘Well, I don’t know if your insurance company is going to cover this?’ Let’s eliminate all of that.’ – Kamala Harris

‘I leave Medicare alone. I create a new system for everyone under 65 where they get health care as a right. It’s a basic plan. We roll Medicaid into that, but then we allow people to have choices and get private insurance to supplement that basic government plan.’ – John Delaney

‘The single-payer Medicare for All proposal is not only bad policy, but it’s bad politics. It’s bad politics for a very simple reason: More than half the country has private insurance and most of them like it.’ – John Delaney

‘I would not outlaw or eliminate private health insurance. But if we do a good enough job, with a robust public option, there really should not be as much of a need for private insurance in the market.’ – Andrew Yang

‘Of all the liberal resentments during the Obama years, one of the sharpest has been the failure to secure a public insurance option as part of the Affordable Care Act.’ – Joy Reid

‘When the NRA wants to prevent gun reform, they funnel money into the campaigns of candidates nationwide to make sure they don’t vote for common sense gun reform. Insurance companies do the same to block Medicare for All and prevent us from guaranteeing health care as a right, not a privilege.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘Obviously, Detroiters pay the worst when it comes to car insurance, but car insurance is expensive for Michiganders across the state. I hear about it in all communities.’ – Gretchen Whitmer

‘All Democrats from Bernie to Biden will eliminate private insurance either outright or as a consequence of the public option crowding out private insurance.’ – Brad Parscale

‘I wrote ‘My Teeth Hurt’ in April 2018 when my teeth hurt and I didn’t have dental insurance.’ – Ezra Furman

‘The only way President Obama and his cohorts could sell Obamacare was to conceal the law’s true ramifications and convince those who were already content with their health insurance that they wouldn’t be affected.’ – Wayne LaPierre

‘I bring a voice to veterans’ issues in a real clear way. On military insurance, I know in extreme detail both the positives and negatives with military health care.’ – Elissa Slotkin

‘A big reason I ultimately decided to run was because of my family’s experience when my mom was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer and did not have health insurance at the time.’ – Elissa Slotkin

‘Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.’ – Abhijit Banerjee

‘Catastrophic health shocks do enormous damage to families both economically and otherwise, and are easy to insure, because nobody gets them on purpose. On the other hand, insurance policies that only treat certain catastrophic illnesses are hard to comprehend, especially of you are illiterate and unused to the legalistic nature of exclusions etc.’ – Abhijit Banerjee

‘When Democrats are proposing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for all and proposing that they take away your private insurance… it’s very obvious to people that they’ve gone in a radical direction that will not work.’ – Dan Crenshaw

‘I am fighting kidney cancer. And I’m just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could concentrate on the care that I needed rather than how the heck I was going to afford the care that was going to probably save my life.’ – Mazie Hirono

‘I have survived ALS to continue my work as a musician and composer for 28 years due to the care I receive through insurance and Medicaid. Without these supports, my family can flatout not manage my care, and my life and career will be in serious jeopardy.’ – Jason Becker

‘I think we should have a universal, a shared cultural or societal goal, of universal health insurance coverage. That’s completely different from saying the government can solve all of those problems, or that it can micromanage every aspect of the health delivery system. I think we know that it can’t do that.’ – Ben Sasse

‘A family’s desire to be able to keep its health insurance when changing jobs or geography (a problem that Obamacare doesn’t make any better, by the way) is perfectly reasonable.’ – Ben Sasse

‘The NHS was hard to deliver, so was the minimum wage. It’s time now – we need to have a proper conversation about how much is the individual cost, how much is the burden that we’re all going to share together, and how much are we going to put on older adults now versus a future system like national insurance.’ – Jess Phillips

‘For a public option, I voted for that when I was in Congress, and the Senate couldn’t stand up to the health insurance industry and took it out.’ – Joe Sestak

‘Trump makes really, really powerful arguments, for example in relation to healthcare. He talks about the cartels and the concentration of power and the health insurance companies effectively having monopolies and ripping people off.’ – Steve Hilton

‘The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.’ – Lisa Joy

‘Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very early.’ – Sudha Murty

‘We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn’t accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies are arrayed in force against them.’ – Tom Junod

‘The thing with Elizabeth Warren that you have to keep in mind is she is very far left. I think a lot of folks who may have considered voting for someone like Joe Biden are going to be very turned off by ideas like universal health care, which would essentially force 200 million Americans off of private health insurance.’ – Lara Trump

‘The development of a strategic plan for cancer prevention in medical schools that is supported by all stakeholders – including the medical community, government, the insurance industry, cancer advocacy groups and all those dedicated to cancer prevention – will be the key to inspiring patients to live lifestyles that will decrease cancer risk.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘My average fan works for about $20 per hour, if they are lucky enough to have a job. And then factoring in insurance, taxes and such, they’re maybe bringing home $15 per hour. If my tickets are just under $30, it took them about two hours of their life to make the money to come see my show. Why shouldn’t I give them two hours too?’ – Ralphie May

‘To reduce repossessions caused by unemployment, Gordon Brown needs to look at cutting the rate of corporation tax for small companies to 20 per cent and the main rate to 25 per cent, while reducing the rate of employers’ national insurance by 1% for the smallest companies.’ – Grant Shapps

‘I really have aproblem with the fact that insurance companies don’t see infertility as a medical condition requiring coverage. I do want there to be some pressure on the insurance companies.’ – Martie Maguire

‘When you’re young, not only do you not have any money, you don’t think something can happen to you. I raced some races without insurance in the early days of my career. I didn’t think about it at all.’ – Alex Zanardi

‘Providing access to a public option for health insurance would allow all Americans the choice to buy a government insurance plan, much like I buy for my family as a military retiree.’ – Amy McGrath

‘The ACA is far from perfect, but through Kynect and expanded Medicaid, it enabled more than 400,000 Kentuckians – especially those with pre-existing conditions – to get affordable health insurance for the first time.’ – Amy McGrath

‘A Land Valuation Tax is a levy on the value of the land unimproved by buildings or other enhancement. The method is already used by insurance companies each year when they calculate your home insurance premium – they separate the cost of a total rebuild of the property from the value of the land itself.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘The fear is that if the dollar falls below 50% of the currency basket held by commercial and central banks and insurance companies, there may be a democratization of the way currencies are priced.’ – Porter Stansberry

‘When I left the WWF after SummerSlam ’93, I didn’t leave there thinking this is the end of my career. A couple of months later, when the neck injury took place and everything and I had that conversation with the doctor, I took the insurance and I got out of the ring.’ – Ted DiBiase Sr.

‘Health care is a human right, but Bevin doesn’t understand that. He wants to let insurance companies deny care for people with pre-existing conditions, slashing coverage for chronic disease management, mental health services, maternity care and prescription drugs.’ – Andy Beshear

‘The health of Americans must no longer be a commodity to be traded, bought, or sold for profit by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. We must promote medical and Medicaid home models to provide comprehensive care for body, mind, and spirit.’ – Deb Haaland

‘In my own business, I took on the insurance companies and built my own self-insured plan for my employees that was cost effective and included no caps on coverage, coverage for pre-existing conditions, and allowed kids to stay on their parents’ plan until they turned 26.’ – Mike Braun

‘As a first-generation college student who worked my way through community college on to Cornell Law, having health insurance was not a top priority when I was starting out. I was buried in student loan debt and worried about simply making ends meet.’ – Sharice Davids

‘We know that Congress must find ways to reduce the cost of health insurance, including premiums and out-of-pocket costs, as well as to lower the actual costs of health care.’ – Sharice Davids

‘It wasn’t until I was injured at the gym – resulting in an emergency room visit and bill of $4,000 – that I realized the cost of forgoing health insurance. I was fine, but it took me more than a year to pay off that bill. That hurt worse than the injury itself.’ – Sharice Davids

‘New Jerseyans and their loved ones who live with a pre-existing condition should not have to worry whether or not their health insurance plan will cover them.’ – Mikie Sherrill

‘As Speaker, I passed protections for Mainers with pre-existing conditions to prevent insurance companies from denying them coverage – that’s the kind of leadership we need in Washington.’ – Sara Gideon

‘We have taken on the health insurance industry, we have taken on the drug companies, instituting programs to lower the cost of prescription drugs.’ – Sara Gideon

‘We shouldn’t think of family leave as an elite benefit, only available at some companies. Everyone in Maine, whether they have a child or are caring for a sick family member, should have access to this same benefit. It should be like unemployment insurance, there for you when you need it.’ – Sara Gideon

‘At the heart of President Barack Obama’s health-care plan is an insurance program funded by taxpayers, administered by Washington, and open to everyone. Modeled on Medicare, this ‘public option’ will soon become the single dominant health plan, which is its political purpose. It will restructure the practice of medicine in the process.’ – Scott Gottlieb

‘We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn’t become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing so requires a shared commitment between innovators and the insurance plans that are harder pressed to offer these advances to the poor.’ – Scott Gottlieb

‘Obamacare has made insurance costlier and far less comprehensive.’ – Scott Gottlieb

‘Before Obamacare, insurance networks typically covered an entire state. Under Obamacare, insurers are able to bid to offer coverage mostly on a county-by-county basis. It means that health plans only need to fashion doctor networks as wide as the county that they’re bidding to offer coverage in.’ – Scott Gottlieb

‘Obamacare mandates a largely uniform structure and set of benefits and insurance design across the entire country. It leaves consumers with very little real choice of the health benefits they want.’ – Scott Gottlieb

‘I quit my job in New India Insurance and was confronted by various options. I could either go to Pune to do a course in acting from Poona University or shift base to Bombay or Delhi and study at NSD. I opted for the latter because it is the best place to get a formal education in acting.’ – Atul Kulkarni

‘People want the security, the insurance, the 401K, and all that stuff and it’s all crap, OK. There is no such thing as security. What you’ve got is right now – you don’t have tomorrow; you don’t have next week. You have right now.’ – Mike Hughes

‘It’s always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you’re just going to fall over or something.’ – James Ivory

‘My first job was a commercial for a Swiss insurance company. It was an eight-minute short with a proper story arc, and it ended up getting a spot at Cannes Lions; I was lucky to avoid the commercials where you’re their puppet.’ – Charlie Heaton

‘Doctors, dentists and nurses commonly take out malpractice insurance to pay for lawsuits. The trend has expanded to include hairdressers, accountants, vets, sports umpires and members of the clergy, all fearful of being sued for wrongful action or advice.’ – Gavin Esler

‘We now know that Mr. Obama lied to the American people with his pledge ‘If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.” – Tom Fitton

‘I wanted to box when I was 7, but I couldn’t because in Philadelphia you need to be 10 to get insurance. So me and my dad waited 3 years until I could sign up, and I’ve been fighting since then.’ – Danny Garcia

‘To describe ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ as an ‘insurance policy’ would be comical if it wasn’t such an appalling concept.’ – Clive Lewis

‘The $25,000 stunt was a demonstration of the automobile air bag system for an Allstate Insurance television commercial. I drove a car into a concrete obstacle at 25 m.p.h.’ – Hal Needham

‘Insurance, pension reforms are going to be extremely important for the stock market because the kind of money we’ll get from that is unbelievable.’ – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

‘The Trump administration, to its credit, has initiatives on housing. It has initiatives on child care. It does not have true initiatives in terms of making health care more affordable and covering the remaining millions of Americans who do not have insurance coverage.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘So overall in the entire economy, the issue is not that health care costs are growing dramatically. The issue is that the burden placed on families is. So just between 2010 and 2016, the cost burden of family private insurance premiums jumped 28%, whereas incomes rose less than 20%.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘Police forces across America need root-to-stem changes – to their internal cultures, training and hiring practices, insurance, and governing regulations.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘Americans are no less susceptible to disease, joblessness, and family changes than their peers in rich nations, but they are made more fragile by these crises. The country has a thinner safety net, fewer public goods, and less social insurance than other countries.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘The cost-of-living crisis extends beyond housing. Health-care costs are exorbitant, too: Americans pay roughly twice as much for insurance and medical services as do citizens of other wealthy countries, but they don’t have better outcomes.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘Depriving immigrant families of health care, healthy food, insurance, and antipoverty supports does not just hurt them. In the long term, it hurts everyone.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘Producers need to bear additional costs of safety measures such as sanitization of the location, provision of masks, gloves, transport, and insurance. It is possible to accommodate these costs in a viable manner.’ – Rockline Venkatesh

‘I never got with Dre for money because he didn’t have a driver’s license, a car or insurance… or a house. We lived with his Auntie, who I ended up calling mommy.’ – Michel’le

‘I was 34 years old, and I knew that I wanted a possibility of having a family one day, but I wasn’t dating anyone obviously because I’m living at the mansion. But I just wanted to make sure I had the possibility, so I froze my eggs back then and that was my insurance policy for later on in life.’ – Bridget Marquardt

‘We decided to go ahead and thaw my eggs that I had retrieved at the mansion, and none of them survived the thaw. That was pretty devastating for me because all this time I though I had an amazing insurance policy, and it didn’t work out.’ – Bridget Marquardt

‘Far too many people, many of them white men, are losing healthcare insurance as they lose their manufacturing jobs. This is commerce by most real world definitions.’ – Maya Wiley

‘Until you’ve looked a parent in the eye and told them their perfect child has a preexisting condition no insurance company will cover, you can’t tell me the Affordable Care Act isn’t worth fighting for.’ – Ralph Northam

‘A robust, sustainably funded unemployment insurance system is Connecticut’s most important tool for keeping our families out of poverty and our economy in motion during a recession.’ – Ned Lamont

‘We need to lower the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs instead of making it easier for insurance companies to charge more for less inclusive coverage.’ – Tom Malinowski

‘All our fighters are provided insurance and full medical facilities.’ – Raj Kundra

‘Motherhood, pester power and emotional blackmail – Indian marketers have cottoned on to the fact that these three themes can sell just about anything – from food and toys, to insurance products, tonics, televisions and air-conditioners.’ – Sucheta Dalal

‘There is no doubt at all that the government monopoly over the insurance business had to end. There is a crying need for better service, more innovation, and a comprehensive insurance cover.’ – Sucheta Dalal

‘When you’ve lived in a country for 50 years and you pay your tax, you have a pension and insurance, you’ve raised a family and sent your kids to uni. To get to an age and be told you don’t belong here and you have to go back to where you come from is really saddening and infuriating.’ – Lenny Henry

‘Something that needs to be better is making sure our athletes have the right insurance claims and are protected when we’re going into major tournaments and representing our countries.’ – Liz Cambage

‘From food security to housing, from job creation to healthcare, from financial inclusion to insurance – we have adopted a holistic approach towards social welfare.’ – Anurag Thakur

‘Like a lot of other young people, I never thought about health insurance until I got sick. I was 22, and my adult life was just beginning.’ – Suleika Jaouad

‘If you have a chronic illness in America, there’s a good chance you also hold a degree in Health Insurance 101, whether you want to or not.’ – Suleika Jaouad

‘I’ve been fortunate to be treated by excellent doctors at world-class hospitals. In the last year alone, my insurance has covered over a million dollars in medical expenses, including a bone marrow transplant and 10 hospitalizations amounting to a combined five months of inpatient care.’ – Suleika Jaouad

‘Every time I see a doctor, get a CT scan, receive chemotherapy or pick up a prescription, insurance covers only part of the transaction – and there’s always a bill on top of it.’ – Suleika Jaouad

‘I spend a lot of time apologizing for the things I say when I am hungry. That’s why breakfast, for me, is non-negotiable. It’s an insurance policy against saying things I’ll regret before my blood-sugar levels have stabilized.’ – Chris Morocco

‘I have had patients die because of lack of insurance.’ – Cori Bush

‘I think people are fed up with struggling to make ends meet. It’s so easy to find yourself in a position of not being able to pay the bills for most Americans when we’re watching the cost of housing and child care and health insurance skyrocket without an increase in wage.’ – Stephanie Land

‘Cleaning companies often pay their employees less than a living wage and offer no sick days or health insurance. My years of working for them still made me grimace every time I saw a little yellow car with ‘Merry Maids’ written on the side.’ – Stephanie Land

‘I’ve been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for the course when you’re Black or brown in America.’ – Jamaal Bowman

‘I am painfully familiar with the impossible juggle for caretakers trying to navigate language and cultural barriers, insurance pitfalls, and their own unyielding work schedules – only to be heartbroken by the limits of medical treatment.’ – Michelle Wu

‘The more expensive your house, the more your insurance will cost.’ – Robbie Savage

‘The controversial idea of abolishing private insurance in favor of a single, government-run program certainly deserves some rigorous back-and-forth. But not at the expense of issues with a much greater impact on our health.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘As an emergency physician, I can tell you that the best health insurance in the world means nothing if patients can’t reach a hospital in their moment of need.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Sound health policy is about so much more than the mechanics of insurance. Let’s stop letting ‘Medicare-for-all’ dominate the conversation.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘I have dealings with a pension firm, an insurance company and a bank, and every day one of these institutions tries to worry me into buying something else. The bank wants to sell me a pension, the pension company wants to sell me insurance for my pension and the insurance company wants to insure my bank account.’ – Harry Enfield

‘My parents worked for Travelers Insurance.’ – Jason Collins

‘It’s time to wake up to the fact that being part of the single market is the best insurance policy we could have against a race to the bottom on wages, rights and protections that threaten British workers and that there is no ‘jobs first Brexit’ without it.’ – Wes Streeting

‘Black America knows what real progress looks like, that’s why a Black family dancing to Tag Team in the kitchen sells a lot more Geico insurance than yet another interracial couple centering a woke white fantasy.’ – Jason Johnson

‘Behavioral telehealth services have been a lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s crucial for the health and well-being of New Mexicans that insurance providers cover these essential services as they would in-person counseling. New Mexicans shouldn’t have to foot the bill for utilizing these services.’ – Ben Ray Lujan

‘I remember Chris Kirkland driving a really small car at Coventry when he made the first team, because the insurance premium for a young goalkeeper on anything more than a 1.1-litre engine was prohibitive. He got plenty of stick then and I don’t think it did his back any good. I understand his motivations, though.’ – David James

‘Independent contractors don’t have the same institutional support that salaried employees do – legal, benefits, insurance, etc.’ – Jake Auchincloss

‘It’s not easy to explain a system that creates insurance exchange markets, coupled with tax credits to make sure the insurance sold on the exchanges is affordable.’ – Neera Tanden

‘For decades, cost-conscious Republicans criticized the way health care is delivered in our country. They argued that generous insurance plans, combined with the fee-for-service system in which doctors, hospitals, and other providers are reimbursed for each point of service they deliver, creates incentives for overuse.’ – Neera Tanden

‘Would Americans really feel better with insurance companies deciding whether they or their parents get the care they need? Probably not.’ – Neera Tanden