#insurance

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you? ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#care #choice #do you know #given #going

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#benefits #businesses #care #compensation #costs

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#basic #companies #concept #deploying #electronic

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#contract #go #insurance #intent #original

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#access #canadians #committed #critical #determine

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#fun #get #insurance #life #life insurance

Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#enforcement #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants #insurance

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#cost #fact #insurance #long #long term

As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement? ↗

— John Doolittle

#choice #choose #comes #drive #give

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else. ↗

— Eric Massa

#cannot #care #changing #changing the world #else