Medicaid Quotes

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

  Franklin Raines

  Unemployment, Economy, Food Stamps

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• You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

  Max Baucus

  Worry, Income, Care

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• Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

  James T. Walsh

  New York, Safety, Vulnerable

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• People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

  John Goodman

  People, Population, Poor

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• In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Long, Pay, Income

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• Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.

  Franklin Raines

  Children, Kids, Economy

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• How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

  James T. Walsh

  Medicare And Medicaid, Issues, Concern

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• One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.

  Mike Huckabee

  Running, Romance, Cost

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• In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

  Jim Ryun

  Growing, Next, Facts

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• The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

  Ed Rendell

  Home, Nursing, People

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• Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

  Louise Slaughter

  Pregnancy, Titles, Needs

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• We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

  John W. Snow

  Medicare And Medicaid, Trying, President

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

  Kent Conrad

  Government, Issues, Would Be

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• The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

  Mitt Romney

  Senior, Jobs, Kids

  "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. April 12, 2011.

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• We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.

  Eric Cantor

  Believe, Medicare And Medicaid, Choices

  "David Plouffe on New Obama Deficit Plan; Rep. Eric Cantor on Budget Battle". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 10, 2011.

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• Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

  Fred Upton

  Law, President, Different

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• By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

  Robert Kuttner

  Home, Nursing, Class

  "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.

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• You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get [female recipients] Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.

  Russell Pearce

  Jobs, Alcohol, Drug

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• Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

  Sherrod Brown

  Children, Cutting, Compassion

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• If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.

  Arthur Laffer

  Running, Thinking, Government

  "Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" by Bob Cesca, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2009.

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• I support the Ryan budget plan. I think it’s the right direction on the major points. I can’t say I’ve read all of it, but on the major thrust of what he’s doing, I support what he wants to do with Medicare, Medicaid. The only thing I would do, frankly, as I’ve said publicly many times, I think we should implement a lot of these things sooner than what he’s suggesting.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Support, Want

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• There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

  Chuck Grassley

  Running, Medicare And Medicaid, Government

  "Sens. Dodd, Grassley on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 14, 2009.

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• It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

  Phil Bredesen

  Reform, Care, Dump

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

  Jason Chaffetz

  Talking, Issues, Important

  "Rep. Chaffetz on voting for Ryan's budget cuts for Medicare: 'It's a totally different approach' to Obama's cuts, says Republican plan doesn't call for vouchers". "Starting Point" with Soledad O'Brien, startingpoint.blogs.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

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• The federal government would give money to the states. States would be able to negotiate at local rates. It's not Medicaid. People didn't want it to be Medicaid in Washington, either.

  Maria Cantwell

  Government, People, Giving

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