Kathleen Sebelius Quotes
Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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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, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.
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Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.
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You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.
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Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.
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For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.
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The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
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Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.
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One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love.
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The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line 'You cannot be turned down for this coverage!' are actually saying, ' For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.'
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Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House Bill 3200, creates affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans.
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You will see the President being very, very tough on spending.
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Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.
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I can't wake up at all without caffeine.
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I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys from my neighborhood who are in jail or who are dead. It does take a certain strength to know your environment and say, 'I can grow beyond it.'
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Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.
