Bernie Sanders Quotes About Medicare

Quotes about: Medicare

• Believe me, every American, every person in this country, if I have anything to say about it, will know precisely what is going on with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, because they are beginning to appoint people who are typical right-wing Republicans who want to privatize and cut Social Security.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Cutting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This is not only immoral it is bad economics. Why do Republicans always have money for war but not for those in need?

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid

• I want Trump to send out a tweet saying that he's going to keep his campaign promises. He's not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid, Promise

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• What I think people should realize is that programs like Social Security, programs like Medicare, programs like the Veterans Administration, programs like your local park and your local library - those are, if you like, socialist programs; they're run by [and] for the public, not to make money. I think in many ways we should expand that concept so that the American people can enjoy the same benefits that people all over the world are currently enjoying.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Thinking, People

• We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Moving

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 28, 2015.

• I'm not quite sure,this is the issue that is on the minds of the American people right now, who basically want to make sure that Donald Trump keeps the promises that he made when he said he was not going to cut Social Security and Medicare.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Issues, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Fighting, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Class, America

• I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Cutting, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid, Talking

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Nov 03, 2013

• I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.

  Bernie Sanders

  Ideas, America, Health Education

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

• Secretary [Hillary ] Clinton is absolutely right, there are people, Koch brothers among others, who have a group called Concerned Veterans of America, funded by the Koch brothers. The Koch brothers, by the way, want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, every governmental program passed since the 1930s. Yes, there are people out there who want to privatize it.

  Bernie Sanders

  Brother, America, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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

  Country, Believe, Moving

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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