Liza Featherstone Quotes

You look at the savings health insurance, there's so many great ways you can do that. You'll get great plans at much less money, at much less money. I mean, these people are being just killed. And you know the 25% was put out by Washington 'cause the real number could be three times that amount. I mean, it's catastrophic what's going on.

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

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

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.

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

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.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

If you're the cashier at Burger King, of course you make less than the manager or even the CEO. The issue is whether you're stuck being a cashier for the rest of your life.

Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

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..

There's no way we're going to have low cost health insurance in a world of high cost medicine.

The United States has the best health system in the world. Unfortunately this is true only for those who can afford it.

Too many of our senior citizens are being forced to choose between neglecting their illnesses or being impoverished by them.

Do you really want to pay for surgeon’s salaries by not having low-income people not be able to afford health insurance?

Now all of you know that right now the federal minimum wage is a starvation wage.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

Obamacare imposed an unprecedented level of regulation and standardization on individual-market health insurance all across America. This has left many consumers in an intolerable predicament - in some cases, having to spend up to a third or even half of their income on premiums and deductibles before insurance kicks in.

Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.

If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures.