America Quote by Kevin Drum Download Open image “Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage.” — Kevin Drum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Coverage Mess Percent
When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now,… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
Eighty five percent of Americans, year in and year out, say they believe everyone should have universal coverage. The problem is everybody has a different idea of how to make it work. And unfortunately what you have is 85 percent of Americans are reasonably well-insured. And when you start thinking about how you're going to get the remaining 15 percent,… — Stuart Altman Copy Share
We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction. — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
We, of course, need to improve our failing healthcare system, where costs are skyrocketing and 1 in 3 Americans doesn't have the healthcare that… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The U.S. has a system that does have a poor cost-benefit ratio. I mean, 40 million people lack insurance; another 30 million or so… — Karl Lauterbach Copy Share Image
Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs,… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Perhaps the country's most pressing problem is its high uninsured rate. Every other country as wealthy as the United States has figured out how… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage.… — Greg Walden Copy Share Image
It wasn’t government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn’t government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they’ve faced a serious illness or accident. It wasn’t government that gave us a system in which the gap between what… — Paul Waldman Copy Share
If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has… — Kevin Drum Copy Share
I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
[Donald trump] was steamed about [Hillary] Clinton's suggestion that he might not be as rich as he says. So he ditched the email stuff and instead spend a couple of minutes defending the greatness of his income, his company, his debts, his bankers, his buildings - and then sort of forgot what he was talking about and wandered off into… — Kevin Drum Copy Share
The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told,… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that? — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves... — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
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