11.01.06
Gluttony
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
–Henry IV of France
One must eat to live, and not live to eat.
–Molière
How hard is it to persuade the belly, that hath no ears?
–Cato the Elder
06.30.06
Health Insurance Quotes
Health Insurance Quotes
“Increasing costs of physicians’ services, rising costs of prescription drugs, hospital in-patient and out-patient costs, and mostly increase in healthcare spending and utilization,” lead to the double-digit increase in premium every year,
- Wendy Wiederhold
The center’s report says that in 2005, 41.2 million Americans, or 14.2 percent of the population, were uninsured when its survey was conducted. It said 51.3 million had been uninsured for at least part of the prior year and 29.2 million, or 10 percent, had been uninsured for more than a year.
The study is based on a regular survey of more than 98,300 people.
The NCHS, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that insurance coverage varied widely among states, from 6 percent without health insurance in Massachusetts to more than 24 percent without in Texas.
- National Center for Health Statistics Report on Health Insurance Coverage
“I think the results would hold even now. Labor market is a lot weaker. There has been a reduction of non-healthy population and there are now fewer working people. It is possible that small firms are less likely to offer health insurance than in 2001, given that health costs have not stopped rising.”
- James Reschovsky - Center for Studying Health System Change
“There are thousands of trade associations that could participate in the new market, and since many small business owners belong to more than one organization, there would be competition among associations to provide health insurance. One way to gain a “competitive advantage,” would be to provide better healthcare options.
- Amanda Austin, manager of legislative affairs for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
Health Insurance Quotes
Health Insurance Quotes
“Tort reform will not lower rates. ”
- Representative of the Ohio Health Insurance Company testifying before the Wyoming Legislature
- (Casper Star Tribune, May 4, 2003)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable and advancable credit against income tax for health insurance costs, to allow employees who elect not to participate in employer subsidized health plans an exclusion from gross income for employer payments in lieu of such participation, and for other purposes.
- H.R.2203 - Sponsor: Rep Shadegg, John B. [AZ-3] (introduced 5/5/2005)
“This is something as a small business owner company, something that you have to realize that if you are going to be in the health insurance benefits game, you are just going to have to eat those costs.”
- Clay Bethune
06.24.06
Help Quotes
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
- Rona Barrett
04.30.06
Health Quotes
Health Quotes
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
- Unknown
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year
-Unkown
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
- Og Mandingo
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
- Albert Einstein
