Medicaid Quotes - Page 2

• Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

  George Noory

  Stress, Creating, Growing

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• While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

  Fred Upton

  Reform, Needs, Entitlement

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• Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.

  John Cornyn

  Average, Years, Reform

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• This legislation provides Medicaid eligibility to evacuees and residents in (Federal Emergency Management Agency) designated disaster counties, .. It also helps pay private health insurance premiums for those at risk for losing their coverage.

  Thad Cochran

  Agency, Risk, Pay

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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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• Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

  Bob McDonnell

  Ideas, Fixing, Expanding

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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

  Cutting, Benefits, Tables

  "Russ Feingold: Nancy Pelosi Needs To Stand Strong" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the…Medicaid bill.

  Henry Hyde

  Class, Abortion, Bills

  "40 Years After Roe v. Wade, We Still Fall Short of Reproductive Justice" by Terry O'Neill, www.usnews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• If a Republican came along and suggested free abortions for people on Medicaid, the first person to stand up would be Jesse Jackson and start shouting, "Racism!" And then Al Sharpton wouldn't be as far behind, and they would call it an attempt to eliminate people of color by the dastardly, rascally Republicans. But yet Hillary Clinton is proposing it and is being feted, praised to the heavens for such a compassionate plan. The Democrats are wiping out their own people. That's why they need open borders for replacements to be brought in ASAP.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Color, Racism, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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

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• No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, Drug, Matter

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• Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Long, Unemployment

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• You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

  Megyn Kelly

  Expansion

  Megyn Kelly's speech at the first prime-time Republican presidential debate hosted by FOX News and Facebook at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 6, 2015.

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• 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

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