Medicare Quotes - Page 3

• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  Bennie Thompson

  Education, Drug, Quality

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• One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Sunset, Men

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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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• As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

  Sue Kelly

  Believe, Drug, Quality

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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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• ...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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• Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.

  Jim Bunning

  Girl, Senior, Baby

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• But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

  John Shimkus

  Illinois, Kentucky, Drug

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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 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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• We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Years, People, Needs

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• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Lane Evans

  Cutting, Issues, Names

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• We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

  Bob Inglis

  Mean, Testing, Bankruptcy

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• Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

  Anthony Weiner

  Eugenics, People, Want

  "Rep. Weiner Says Medicare Is Holding Down Costs Better Than Private Plans". "Your World With Neil Cavuto" with Stuart Varney, www.foxnews.com. November 24, 2009.

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• They are cutting medicare

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Cutting

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• Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare

  Edward Kennedy

  Stupid, Humorous, Cutting

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• Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Long, Choices

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• There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.

  Kevin Yoder

  Country, Cutting, Doctors

  "Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.

  Robert Reich

  Class, America, Long

  "Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

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• President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Law, President, Tunes

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. August 5, 2012.

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• While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

  Shelley Berkley

  Believe, Support, Quality

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• I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have.

  Mark Steyn

  Thinking, Example, Dollars

  "Mark Steyn: RomneyCare Was A 'Technocratic Solution'". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 12, 2011.

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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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• Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Fighting, Medicine

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.5, Humanix Books

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• The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Years, Program, Turns

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