Medicare Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.

  Carl Curtis

  Country, Moving, Care

  Carl Thomas Curtis, Regis A. Courtemanche (1986). “Forty years against the tide: Congress and the welfare state”, Gateway Books

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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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• If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

  Dick Durbin

  Senior, Hurt, People

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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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• [The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

  Paul Krugman

  Retirement, War, Army

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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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• Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.

  David Cay Johnston

  Rich, Politician, Poor

  "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.

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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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• A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit at the table, but must position themselves at the head, where they can lead and direct the nature of that design.

  Brian Day

  Health, Design, Decision

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• Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time, accelerate Medicare's and Social Security's slide into insolvency and put enormous strain on our public-assistance programs.

  Jeff Sessions

  Balance, Immigration, Dollars

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• The bottom line in 2007 is that enrollment costs are going up substantially, drug coverage is declining and the brand name coverage in the doughnut hole is being eliminated... Medicare D is an insurance program, not a benefit. As consumption increases, so too will cost. The changes in 2007 clearly demonstrate the limitations of the program.

  David J. C. MacKay

  Names, Drug, Cost

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• We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Years, Giving

  Speech at the First presidential debate, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2008.

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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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• Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline.

  Bill Maher

  Military, Cutting, Gay

  "Maher: Reagan wrote GOP playbook" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. June 8, 2013.

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• Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner

  Betsy McCaughey

  Years, People, Counseling

  'The Rachel Maddow Show' with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. July 29, 2009.

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• When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

  Dennis Hastert

  Senior, Doctors, America

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• Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

  Ishmael Reed

  Party, Tea, Scooters

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