44 Quotes About Life Insurance and Health Coverage
This page gathers quotes about life insurance and the wider idea of protection, risk, and what coverage means in real life. It is for readers looking for lines that fit a card, speech, caption, or a plain explanation of the topic.
44 QUOTES
Thinking About Protection
These quotes treat insurance as a way people try to steady ordinary uncertainty. They work well when you want the broadest, most direct lines on the subject.
“Christianity is not an insurance policy against life’s ills and troubles.”
Billy Graham“Taking care of your body is insurance for your soul.”
Toni Sorenson“The only real insurance you have against disease is a healthy body. Invest wisely, generously and often in that policy.”
Toni Sorenson“Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”
Ambrose Bierce“The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.”
Suze Orman“It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.”
Daniel Kahneman“People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.”
Daniel Kahneman“The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer“We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.”
Mohamed ElBaradei“Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very early.”
Sudha Murty
When Coverage Becomes Personal
This group stays close to daily life, money, family, and the pressure of not having enough coverage. Use it for writing that needs a human angle rather than a policy one.
“It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.”
Elizabeth Warren“I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance.”
Elizabeth Warren“Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.”
James Surowiecki“Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.”
Jan Schakowsky“Having health insurance made me feel like a real person. Up until then, it felt like I was getting away with something, and if three things went wrong, it would all fall apart.”
Greta Gerwig“Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health.”
Charles B. Rangel“Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.”
Tammy Duckworth“Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.”
Cathy McMorris Rodgers“A family's desire to be able to keep its health insurance when changing jobs or geography (a problem that Obamacare doesn't make any better, by the way) is perfectly reasonable.”
Ben Sasse“As an emergency physician, I can tell you that the best health insurance in the world means nothing if patients can't reach a hospital in their moment of need.”
Leana S. Wen
Health Insurance, Costs, And Access
These quotes focus on health insurance itself, especially affordability, choice, and what happens when coverage fails. They fit the phrase most tightly for readers thinking about care, not theory.
“Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.”
P. J. O'Rourke“Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.”
Mitt Romney“People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.”
Mitt Romney“Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.”
Gloria Steinem“The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.”
Ted Cruz“We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.”
Ted Cruz“Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, 'Well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?' Let's eliminate all of that.”
Kamala Harris“Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.”
John McCain“I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.”
Amy Klobuchar“For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.”
Valerie Jarrett“Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.”
Robert Reich“Before Obamacare, only 12% of individual insurance plans covered maternity plans. Even without that important benefit, women were charged up to 48% more than men for the same benefit package.”
Jan Schakowsky“Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.”
Jared Polis
Skepticism And Critique
These lines are sharper, sometimes blunt, about insurers, rules, and the business side of coverage. They are useful when the tone needs to be skeptical rather than reassuring.
“Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.”
P. J. O'Rourke“There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.”
Michael Moore“Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.”
Michael Moore“It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.”
Bernie Sanders“People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.”
Bernie Sanders“We don't have the necessary laws or powers to deal with failing non-bank institutions. If they're a big bank, the depositor has deposit insurance, and the regulators can wind them down without throwing them into bankruptcy.”
Henry Paulson“We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.”
Amy Klobuchar“Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.”
Thomas Sowell“The real problem with Obamacare has little to do with the number of people signing up, and a lot to do with the restrictions on insurance companies and reimbursement rates to doctors.”
Ben Shapiro“In order for Obamacare's cost structure to work, millions of Americans must sign up to pay inflated prices; that would help pay for the subsidies to cover insurance company costs on those with pre-existing conditions.”
Ben Shapiro“Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service.”
Robert Zubrin
Questions people ask
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