“Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.”
Senator John Kerry
“If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.”
Drew Altman
“They go into our emergency rooms because they don't have health insurance so they don't have primary care physicians. Now you can't get into an emergency room down here.”
Steven Berman
“If I bought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog”
Phil Gramm
“Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.”
Dennis Kucinich
“are almost twice as likely to lack health insurance as the general population.”
Richard Lugar
“Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.”
Malcolm Gladwell
