Quotes About Insurance

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.

I think we have to repair our broken health care system.

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.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

Congress needs to work in a bipartisan way to fix the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it.

We are not going to repeal Obamacare.

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare.

We need to repeal and replace Obamacare.

I think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.

I support repeal, but I think we ought to also spend time on the replacement side of that. The Republican approach has never been, 'Let's get rid of this,' but, 'Let's replace it with something that does deal with a very real problem in our healthcare system.' And that is the entry's cost and lack of coverage.

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.

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

We will see if the situation with the Affordable Care Act ever rights itself or is improved upon.

Democrats have been willing to make improvements to the ACA since its inception.

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.

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

During this first term [as Burlington mayor in 1981] I discovered that the city was wasting substantial sums of money on its insurance policies. Companies, year after year, were getting the city's business at substantially higher than market rates. I instituted a radical socialist concept, 'competitive' bidding, which saved the city tens of thousands of dollars.

in Norway, no matter how much time you might spend in a hospital, no matter how many doctor visits you might make, no matter how many prescription drugs you might use, you cannot spend more than $350 a year for health care. Not one cent more.

Over fifteen million Americans lack any health insurance, and some thirty million are underinsured because of high deductibles and copayments.

Given that employer-based insurance is the way most Americans get their coverage, small- and medium-sized businesses are forced to spend an enormous amount of time and energy determining how they can get the most cost-effective coverage for their employees.

I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

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.