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Quotes About Affordability

But if the little man gets paid even less than he is now, How will he ever afford our vegetables?
~ Bertolt Brecht
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.
~ Bill Frist
Buy the car you want....buy the best car you can afford!
~ Bill Stephens
I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
~ Bryan Cogman
Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag.
~ David McFadden
It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35 000 a year. Obviously that doesn't include food or lodging.
~ Kenn Carlson
Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.
~ Mark Skousen
One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.
~ Dan Schulman
In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.
~ Annie Lowrey
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.
~ Chris Ware
The skyrocketing costs of insulin are simply unaffordable for too many Maine families, and no one should be forced to choose between life-saving medications and essentials like groceries or clothes for their kids.
~ Sara Gideon
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
We think healthcare costs should be going down, not up. We think people should be able to keep insurance that they had.
~ Rob Portman
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
~ Bobby Scott
Every time he was called out, no matter the hour or the condition of the patient, he was there to answer the same implicit question: Should we spend coin at a hospital for this? Whether it was fever, injured leg, vomiting child, or anything, really, they just wanted to know if he could fix it without having to turn their life savings over to the medical bureaucracy.
~ Harry Connolly
American men do have genuine reasons for anxiety. The traditional jobs that many men have filled are disappearing, thanks to automation and outsourcing. The jobs that remain require, in most cases, higher education, which is increasingly difficult for non-affluent families to afford.
~ Martha Nussbaum
The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.
~ Kent Conrad
Lyft Line came out of the vision that we've had from the beginning, which is how do we get the most affordable ride to everyone? Eighty percent of seats at all times on the road are empty. In Los Angeles, average car occupancy is 1.1, and if it were 1.3, there would be no traffic.
~ John Zimmer
Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.
~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
It ain't cheap anywhere," Bosch said.
~ Michael Connelly
you could rent a million-dollar home for less than $833 a month.
~ Michael Lewis
Education, once free, is now accessible only to those who can afford the costly tuition rates. The curricula have been "depoliticized," meaning that a left perspective critical of imperialism and capitalism has been replaced by a conservative one that is supportive or at least uncritical of these forces.
~ Michael Parenti
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.
~ Michael Pollan