Medicare Quotes - Page 9

• Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

  Dan Bartlett

  Thinking, May, Als

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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, Reverse

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• Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

  Helen Thomas

  Medicine, Elderly, Sick

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• The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

  Ben Bernanke

  Running, Long, Might

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• The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Glasses, Drug, Doubt

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• [Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

  Ronald Reagan

  Writing, Reform, Care

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• We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.

  Sharron Angle

  Favors, Needs, Phases

  "Approval Ratings Down, Reid In Re-Election Fight". Interview, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.

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• America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

  Mark McKinnon

  America, Ends, Knows

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• When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He
  survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare
  system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just
  had to pay the inheritance tax.

  Emo Philips

  Father, Heart, Car

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• We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Moving

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 28, 2015.

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• If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.

  Mike Huckabee

  Retirement, Talking, Obamacare

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• The fair (ph) transforms the process by which we fund Social Security and Medicare because the money paid in consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, all the people that are freeloading off the system now.

  Mike Huckabee

  People, Drug, Pimp

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I don't think the press has done a very good job dealing with government spending.The Defense Department with the $9,500 toilet seat, that's not the problem anymore. Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are the problem. That's us. That's our generation. There the press never says a word.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.

  Mitch McConnell

  Mean, People, Age

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.

  Gary Johnson

  Grace, Cards, Pay

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• America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

  Bill Johnson

  Military, America, Pay

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• I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

  Jennifer Granholm

  Running, Clever, Order

  "It's the Medicare and the skinny dippers, stupid!" by Jennifer Granholm, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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• On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

  Kevin Drum

  Cutting, Sides, Providers

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• Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

  Ted Cruz

  Zero, Thinking, People

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• Ben Carson seems pretty proud that he knows how big the Medicare budget is. All that money goes to the private sector, but Carson seems to think the private sector would do a lot better if...something. I'm not quite sure what.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Ben Carson, Proud

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• Donald Trump is going to make an announcement about running for President on the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice. Not to be outdone, the same night the Cake Boss will reveal his plan for overhauling Medicare.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Night, Cake

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• When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Justice, Safety

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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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• Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

  Scott Pelley

  Army, Government, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Class, America

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