Claims Quote by Erma Bombeck

I have had patients die because of lack of insurance.

— Cori Bush

People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance…

— Angela Braly

Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.

— Jan Schakowsky

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has…

— Gail Collins

We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small…

— Jeff Merkley

Catastrophic health shocks do enormous damage to families both economically and otherwise, and are easy to insure, because nobody gets them on purpose. On…

— Abhijit Banerjee

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

— Dick Gregory

Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.

— Elizabeth Warren

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

— Debbie Stabenow

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had…

— Dick Cheney

As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk…

— Eric Ries

My sister had health insurance; she should have been warned by her doctors that she was at risk. But she was a minority. The…

— Robin Lim