Charles B. Rangel Quotes

The biggest pressure towards bankruptcy is health expenses … an unexpected health problem is the biggest driver.

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

It wasn't until I was injured at the gym - resulting in an emergency room visit and bill of $4,000 - that I realized the cost of forgoing health insurance. I was fine, but it took me more than a year to pay off that bill. That hurt worse than the injury itself.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.

The average man with a need for an operation cannot afford a first class hospital …My medical pills run $400 to $500 a month and hell, I feel pretty good … Costs must be tempered..

Half of all personal bankruptcies in the United States are due to high medical expenses. Millions of Americans are living one illness away from financial disaster.

Almost half of the bankruptcies in the United States are connected to an illness in the family, whether people had health insurance or not. Middle-class Americans, who had the misfortune of either experiencing a medical emergency themselves or watching a family member suffer, were then forced to face the daunting task of pulling themselves out of debt. Bankruptcy law has allowed them to start over. It has given hope

Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.

Before the Affordable Care Act, one in five bankruptcies in this state was health care related.

Healthcare expenses often wipe out families.

If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.