Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory … - Andrew Tobias

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, " For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose."