Quotes by Bill Vaughan

“We hope the trend continues. Its good for consumers.”

“But here you have people in Part D signing up beginning on Nov. 15th for a program that starts Jan. 1 -- with some people even signing up Dec. 31st. And you expect them to get a prescription by January 2nd? It just wont work.”

“So, weve been here before. This will get better and the system will shake out.”

“The census numbers tell us what weve known for years -- that soaring health care inflation is making health insurance unaffordable, so more folks go uninsured, and those who can afford it find their policies cover less and less. The data shows a continued deterioration in the use of employer-provided health insurance and increased reliance on Medicaid and public programs. If it had not been for more people moving into public programs, the number of uninsured would have increased another 2.3 million, the statistics show.”

“It took about five or six weeks before the process settled down.”

“Consumers are smart enough to know that they dont drive health care when it comes to treating a premature baby, cancer in a spouse or a childs broken bones.”

“Tax deductions do little or nothing for those people who are uninsured and devastated by high health care costs. Most uninsured are in the zero or 10 percent tax bracket, so tax deductions do little or nothing for them.”

“This is another wake-up call to get a handle on runaway medical inflation. Were approaching $1,000 for the average stay in a hospital. This is hurting people and really overloading our economy.”

“Consumers are smart enough to know that they dont drive health care when it comes to treating a premature baby, cancer in a spouse or a childs broken bones. Families need help with the high costs of these essential health services; they dont need talk about being better shoppers.”

“Buried (in the method by which hospitals set fees) is this array of cross-subsidies that lets our health-care system train young doctors, conduct research and care for the uninsured.”

Money wont buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

We learn something every day, and lots of times its that what we learned the day before was wrong.

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didnt amount to much when he was your age.

In the game of life its a good idea to have a few early losses which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Money wont buy happiness but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Youth is when youre allowed to stay up late on New Years Eve. Middle age is when youre forced to.

Money wont buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.