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The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.


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CHARLES NELSON The stabilization in the overall coverage rate can be explained by an increase in government coverag...
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JIM WALLIS We're facing huge demand increases for food stamps and Medicaid assistance, ... At a time when so mu...
PAT ROBERTS The cost could be under $200 a year for Scott's additional life insurance coverage, assuming he's in...
STEVE CARTER Most general casualty policies do not cover flood damage. Many require additional riders for windsto...
CAROL CHASTANG At a time when millions are displaced and seeking federal and state assistance, we believe it is ina...
GORDON SMITH Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
RONALD REAGAN They advertise on the radio for food stamps!
BILL O'REILLY This creates tremendous additional depth of signal, depth of coverage.
JEFF MCELFRESH There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.
KATHERINE DUNN The instructor, Dr. Art Barnaby, is one of the leading authorities on crop insurance products. He wa...
DR. STEVE AMOSSON I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.
MOBY Food stamps are an investment in our future.
DONNA BRAZILE Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going ...
MIKE HUCKABEE I think they'll get better care because I think most of us in private health plans do get better cov...
DEVON HERRICK If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.
BOB GOODLATTE I love Franklin Field; I'm hoping this protest will drawn national media coverage.
BEN SMITH Clearly, this is fraud. Food stamps were for food. They're not for booze or cigarettes or anything l...
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TRIS SPEAKER Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for c...
IRWIN REDLENER Shame on us for creating perverse incentives that cause people to give up private coverage for Medic...
MICHAEL CANNON Shame on us for creating perverse incentives that cause people to give up private coverage for Med...
MICHAEL CANNON There's an additional cost to Ford to have additional spouses on the policy. If the spouse can get o...
MARCEY EVANS It is not a very upscale neighborhood. We will soon begin to accept food stamps.
EDUARDO MARTINEZ Food stamps and WIC provide larger, more flexible benefits than CSFP.
ALEX CONANT Homeowners insurance offers extremely limited coverage for home businesses. There are a lot of diffe...
AMY GERGELY Seniors appear to be filling incremental prescriptions, given additional drug coverage.
DAVID RISINGER The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'
NIGER INNIS Shame on us for creating
perverse incentives that cause people to give up private coverage MICHAEL CANNON Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Fede...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD We have been expecting businesses to provide health insurance coverage, but is this fair? Or, should...
BERNIE SANDERS Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.
JOHN CATSIMATIDIS The majority of the seniors who receive CSFP food boxes do not access food stamps. Most of them cann...
JAN PRUITT If there are cuts to be made, why should we make them on food stamps? ... This is the meanest cut of...
DAVID SCOTT In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my c...
JACKIE SPEIER They are only for people who don't have insurance or whose prescription is not covered by insurance....
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CHRIS MCGINNIS We must proceed carefully before legislating blanket bans on insurance coverage of entire classes of...
HARRY REID The lack of health insurance coverage will keep many people from retiring before they reach age 65.
ALAN GARBER It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enroll...
ELAINE CHAO Further improvement in earnings and additional declines in the unemployment rate is likely to boost ...
JOSEPH ABATE This is a tragic reminder that it may not be enough to review the documents. You may need to follow ...
TOM GALLAGHER They don't need any additional burdens of discrimination against them for other lines of insurance.
LYNDA DELAFORGUE In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, an...
DAVE ALTMAN Those unemployment figures do not include over 300 jobs lost in our Workforce Area 25, which include...
KATHY LIVELY The additional site should also help improve coverage for the residential area near Mallet Hill Road...
LAURIE PARKER It (Unemployment Insurance) provides prepaid vacations for a segment of our country which has made i...
RONALD REAGAN The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising...
JIM RYUN A lot is going to depend on their level of insurance coverage and the impact of what it will take to...
BRIAN GORDON This is generally more good news, a lower unemployment rate, additional seasonally adjusted job grow...
ART AYRE Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY We would not allow a private insurance company to not pay claims and we must not tolerate Medicaid d...
CHANDLER WOODCOCK Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
PATRICIA IRELAND John Kerry has fought again and again to extend unemployment benefits for workers left behind in the...
DAVID WADE The persistent and growing high level of child poverty reflects conscious and misguided choices, ......
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Because of possibly baseless mold claims, most Texas homeowners were slapped with huge insurance pre...
KIRSTEN VOINIS Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Ultimately, the decision to expand Medicaid is one of common sense and necessity; the facts make it ...
STEVE BULLOCK The problem with the health care system is that health insurance is unaffordable or unavailable. It'...
ANTHONY WRIGHT We hope this proposal will become part of a larger effort to crack down on fraud in our unemployment...
KAREN LEE Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employe...
RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY Passing this legislation will help millions of families nationwide, easing the burden that these fam...
PETER FITZGERALD It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draini...
DREW ALTMAN It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draini...
DREW ALTMAN Arkansas is going to have to come up with a plan to cut back on the coverage of the pre-existing Med...
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HAL BOZARTH If they lose the first big Medicaid case, the other side gets additional strength out of that kind o...
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BOB ROSS I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, y...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they...
JOHN GOODMAN People think the landlord's insurance covers them if something happens, but that's not true. His cov...
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ELIOT SPITZER 10.6 percent of adults in Greenville County do not have insurance, and 23 percent of adults who have...
ANDREA SMITH These vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities had good coverage under Medicaid. Now they are...
JEANNE FINBERG It is worth more than food and drink, tobacco, insurance, ships and aircraft,
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ERIC GOLDBERG High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insuran...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN