Megyn Kelly Quotes

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.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured.

I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

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.

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

It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.

Every time somebody ends up in a hospital because of a condition that is, we believe, caused by behaviors that they have been willing to pursue, you and I help pay for their care. So we need to try to put some focus on individual responsibility.

Millions of Americans who are not poor are health care poor.

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..

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

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

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

The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.

Students are up to their eyeballs in loans, and it's going to get even worse. It's going to be hideous, actually. Students are going to be saddled for life. It's going to put a lot of people off going to college, which is a shame.

I had school debt I had to pay off. Sometimes I would do commercials to get me through. And so I kept bumping along like that and learning different things. I knew I wanted to get out on my own. I was just super-curious, and I was a good listener. And that got me through.

If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.

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.

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

General Motors spends more on health care than steel.

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.