“Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.”

“If it weren't for health insurance we wouldn't need health insurance.”

“Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ”

“Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?”

“I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.”

“A novelist must wrestle with all mysteries and strangeness of life itself, and anyone who dies not wish to accept that grand, bone-chilling commission should write book reviews, editorials, or health-insurance policies instead.”