Medicaid Quotes - Page 2

• At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

  James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

  People, Safety, Tough Times

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• When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.

  Allen West

  Running, Medicare And Medicaid, Government

  "Darrell Issa, Fred Upton Talk Oversight; Allen West, Mike Lee on Tea Party Conservatives". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 02, 2011.

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

  Gerald R. Ford

  Medicare And Medicaid, Overcoming, Roles

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1977). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.

  Charles Rangel

  Nice, Men, Medicare And Medicaid

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• The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

  Al Franken

  Vision, Balance, Citizens

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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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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• 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

  Sunshine, Thinking, Needs

  "Rick Perry Newsweek Interview on Federalism, Medicare, and 2012 Race". www.thedailybeast.com. August 12, 2011.

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

  Jeff Bingaman

  Senior, Benefits, Medicare

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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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• 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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• Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Real, Cutting, President

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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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• 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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• A new report shows that medicare and Medicaid made more than $50 Billion in bad payments during fiscal year 2011. Under Obamacare, that'll become known as 'Tuesday.'

  Fred Thompson

  Medicare And Medicaid, Years, Obamacare

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• Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear.

  Lisa Murkowski

  Commitment, Essence, Dry Up

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• With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Risk, Groups, Different

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.196, Transaction Publishers

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• What I was saying back then was that we have a lot of public health costs that taxpayers end up paying for through Medicaid, Medicare, through uncompensated care, because that was in the context of the push for health care reform and that we needed some way to try to defray those costs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Trying, Care, Way

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.

  Josh Earnest

  Cutting, Aunt, People

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• There is a lot of fiscal conservatives in the United States senate that didn't vote for that because we understand that national security spending is not the reason why we have a debt. Our debt is being driven by the way Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and, by the way, the interest on the debt is structured in the years to come.

  Marco Rubio

  Medicare And Medicaid, Years, United States

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We can talk about Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. We can talk about school, we can talk about everything. Defense is number one or we don't have a country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, School, Medicare And Medicaid

  Source: time.com

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• 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

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• Right now, what my job is - pardon me? Those are just words. Right now, what my - my job is right now going beyond media conflicts and words is to say that Donald Trump, among other things, told the American people he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and right now Republicans in the House and Senate are doing just that.

  John Lewis

  Jobs, Cutting, Media

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

  John Lewis

  Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid, Social

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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

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