Quotes About Insurance

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.

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.

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.

The idea of strengthening health savings accounts... that bolsters the marketplace.

We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.

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!

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

I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it's working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans.

I believe that we need to have a public option.

Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange.

I support offering the public option to members of Congress, and as soon as I'm given the chance, I intend to go on it.

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.

When I turn 55, I'm going to be on Medicare. I can call up and tell them I don't want to be on Medicare, but otherwise, I'll be on Medicare. So they use this kind of automatic enrollment. We give states the option of automatically enrolling those who are eligible.

I am a Medicare-for-all public option proponent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

People generally like the idea of being able to buy into Medicare, but not the idea of being required to give up private insurance if they're happy with it.)

If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity (70).

And you definitely shouldn't attempt to drive yourself in Miami, because odds are you'd make some foolish tourist mistake such as stop for a red light, which means you'd be rear-ended by a vehicle going upwards of eighty miles per hour driven by a motorist with no insurance but a minimum of two firearms.

Hell no. Anybody sues me I ain't got no money. See, that's the poor person's best insurance policy: no assets.