Quotes About Insurance

A hundred to one says you weren't able to secure insurance for this little operation. True. I knew better. I didn't even try. So if a starfighter goes down and gets blown up, you're paying for it out of pocket, correct? Dodging the bogeys is better for all of us. I can't stress that enough.

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.

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.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

But airport security is meant mostly to impress honest citizens and insurance companies, and secondarily to catch hijackers and other crazies. There is no security against a man with his own truck and his own clipboard, and Inter-Air Forwarding was a safe, reliable financial success from the beginning.

Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

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

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.

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

I hate snails. I don't trust them. Pulling their house on their back. Walking around, "Nothing can harm me, I've got my house on my back." Crunch. "Where did that foot come from? Bastard broke my house. I don't have insurance for that."

It's sad—but not surprising—that teeth have become a status symbol in a country where more than one in three citizens lack dental coverage, which isn't included with standard medical insurance.)

Mr. Leon S. Utter, a former dean of the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science, has written, "Your selling plan should go into operation as soon as the telephone rings and you are requested to serve a bereaved family.… Never preconceive as to what any family will purchase. You cannot possibly measure the intensity of their emotions, undisclosed insurance, or funds that may have been set aside for funeral expenses.

It's funny—but there will be no need for insurance in heaven. None at all. And there will be so much need for poetry and songs and jokes. People will value what you've learned. It doesn't matter if you can make a living. Shakespeare will be important. You will be so valuable, William. And I will just sit there listening, realizing how I've misspent my life.

Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

The market/non-market boundary does not define the edge of the economy: unpaid work in preparing a meal for someone is as much an economic act as preparing pizzas for sale – or selling computers or insurance.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

appreciation is like an insurance policy. it has to be renewed every now and then.

The rising cost of medical care has also been important; most employees receive health insurance as part of their overall compensation, and most research shows that increases in premiums ultimately come out of wages.16 Indeed, average wages have tended to do badly when health-care costs are rising most rapidly and to do better when health-care costs are rising more slowly.

What if we thought of health and security in retirement as one basket?

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.

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%.