Medicare Quotes

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Program, Areas

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• All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Waiting, Pay

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.

  Art Buchwald

  Health, Two, Would Be

  "The Man Who Would Not Die". "Having a High Time Where You'd Least Expect It" by Art Buchwald, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 2006.

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• 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

  Baby, Down And, Remember

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• We call for healthcare as a human right through Medicare for all.

  Jill Stein

  Healthcare, Humans

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Law, Safety

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• You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Single, Country, Believe

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• "Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Spiritual, Food, Jail

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• The majority of Latinos in this country are 28 years old or younger. All of those people out there attacking the Latino community, when you see a Latino going down the street with a baby carriage and a couple of children walking beside them, they should say 'Hey, there goes my social security and my Medicare.' Those are the people that are going to contribute to keep our social security system funded and our medical system funded.

  Dolores Huerta

  Country, Baby, Children

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

  Donald Trump

  Social, Protect, Security

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• 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

  Cutting, People, Choices

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

  John Dingell

  Real, Thinking, Effort

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• According to The New York Times, the mob has now gotten into Medicare fraud. But the good news is, when they do break your legs there's a good chance you're covered.

  Jay Leno

  New York, News, Legs

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• I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not be financed through a payroll tax.

  Thruston Ballard Morton

  Successful, Payroll Tax, Needs

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• And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.

  James T. Walsh

  Senior, Commitment, Drug

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• We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

  James B. Utt

  Medicine, Care, Assumption

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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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• One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

  Clayton Christensen

  Average, Years, Physicians

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• I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

  Helen Thomas

  Independence, Bills, Firsts

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• The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues.

  John Sununu

  Men, Two, Numbers

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• The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.

  Mark Skousen

  Charitable Work, Organization, Important

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• ...we cannot stand idly by now, as the Nation is urged to embark on an ill-conceived adventure in government medicine, the end of which no one can see, and from which the patient is certain to be the ultimate sufferer.

  Durward Gorham Hall

  Adventure, Medicine, Government

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• Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

  James Surowiecki

  Government, Payroll Tax, Political

  "In Funds We Trust?". www.newyorker.com. December 24 & 31, 2012.

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• When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

  John Sununu

  Differences, Doe, Bigs

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• This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older citizens purchase hospital and medical insurance without Government assistance. This private effort would cease if Government benefits were given to all our older citizens.

  Milward L. Simpson

  Government, Effort, Medical Insurance

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