Medicare Quotes: top 81 famous quotes about Medicare

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I think that person who actually proposes things, who will save Medicare, will be in a lot stronger position than someone who demagogues the issue. — Tom Latham

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it. — Bob Inglis

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours. — Paul Ryan

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken. — John Barrasso

I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have. — Bernie Sanders

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue. — Jason Chaffetz

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general. — Gwen Moore

Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare. — Charles Duhigg

It's common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to be turned into voucher care. — Mark Takano

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare. — Ron Paul

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it. — David Limbaugh

The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare. — Steve Rothman

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program. — Mario Diaz-Balart

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled. — Jeff Bingaman

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do. — John McCain

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare. — Charlie Dent

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home. — Mike Pence

I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment. — Alan Grayson

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it. — Mark McKinnon

On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with. — Paul Tonko

The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid. — Gerald R. Ford

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are. — Jonathan Haidt

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept. — Nan Hayworth

The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget. — Kent Conrad

We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037. — Joe Heck

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare. — John Podesta

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history. — Jim Walsh

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy. — Dan Bartlett

I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare. — Rick Perry

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits. — Rand Paul

Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more. — Mark McKinnon

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work. — Bennie Thompson

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare — Edward Kennedy

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern. — James T. Walsh

I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare. — Dean Heller

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare. — John B. Larson

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won. — Sherrod Brown

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care. — Kinky Friedman

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments. — Tom Coburn

Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die. — Annabel Park

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt. — Addison Wiggin

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters. — Ishmael Reed

I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs. — John F. Kerry

Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do. — Wayne Rogers

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care. — Richard Dooling

When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card ... — Jack Layton

Mark my words, there will be an intensive effort to privatize Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. — Bernie Sanders

We shouldn't be undermining Medicare for those who need it most in order to give more tax cuts to those who need them least. — Ann McLane Kuster

Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn't be put on the table by Democrats for any reason. — Russ Feingold

The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program, — Sheldon Whitehouse

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care. — James Q. Wilson

We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized. — Sharron Angle

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers. — Kevin Drum

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill. — Mike Pence

Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare. — Louie Gohmert

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you sir. — Allen West

It is a $270 billion cut in medicare — William J. Clinton

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want. — Virginia Postrel

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare. — John Dingell

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare. — John Stossel

I am an unlikely guardian. A month ago I thought the Medicare doughnut hole was a breakfast special for seniors. I am a care inflictor. — George Hodgman

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate. — Bernie Sanders

We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it. — Anthony Weiner

I believe we must protect Medicare's guaranteed benefit, and I will oppose any effort to dismantle Medicare and turn it into a voucher system. — Ann Kirkpatrick

We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan. — George W. Bush

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table. — Joe Biden

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country. — Ronald Reagan

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare. — Donald Trump

They are cutting medicare — William J. Clinton

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare. — Marco Rubio

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. — James P. Hoffa

Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it. — Erma Bombeck

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care. — Corrine Brown

Medicare in particular will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much taxes go up. — Barack Obama

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens. — Paul Gillmor

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not. — Bennie Thompson

If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term. — Stephanie Cutter

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed
socialism doesn't work, — Rand Paul

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo. — Mitch Daniels

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly. — Juan Williams