Top 1200 Health Insurance Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.

To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.

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.

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.

Association health plans will actually bring down the cost of insurance.

Do we do away with protecting of the American people with pre - to make sure that if you have an illness you can get insurance? Do we make sure that young people stay on their parents' health insurance? Do we make sure that there are no caps if you're dealing with cancer and you deal with preexisting conditions? It goes without saying that those patient protections have got to stay in place.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

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.

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.

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.

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.

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.

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

You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo - the IRS.

Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.

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

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Women can't be charged more than men for our health insurance.

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.

The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.

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.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

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.

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.

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?

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

Obamacare was very attractive, particularly to those without health insurance.

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

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

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.

I am always interested in working and fun things like health insurance.

Like millions of other Americans, I receive health insurance through my employer.

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.

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?

When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

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

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

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.

Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.

The best tool today is longevity insurance - they call it income insurance. Most people know the value of life insurance. But what if you live? So instead of trying to guess one or the other, you plan for those 20 years and you get this income insurance. If you live beyond 85, you have money that's guaranteed for as long as you live in the form of an annuity.

It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.

Chiropractic is health insurance. Premiums small. Dividends large!

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

Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular.

Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.

People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.

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

Getting people health insurance is a good thing, and that's what Tom Stemberg fought for.

What we should be focusing on - and finding solutions for - is ensuring that every American has health care in this country, no matter what level, no matter what age. No one should die because they can't afford health insurance. No one should go bankrupt because they can't afford it.

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.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

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.

With health care, once you set yourself up as the source for people's health care, not insurance, you own them. That way you have total control over how they must live in order to qualify for health care. And that's what Marxists want. Marxists and leftists do not trust individuals. They have contempt individuals won't do the right thing, the right thing being defined by what Marxists want.

The time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines.