Medicare Quotes - Page 2

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare

Edward Kennedy

Stupid, Humorous, Cutting

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Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

Bennie Thompson

Senior, America, Special

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Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.

Marcia Angell

Thinking, Government, Years

"Message from Massachusetts" by Marcia Angell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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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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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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The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population in the U.S. but also an increased lifespan for people with HIV due to antiretroviral medicines and other treatment advances.

David Mixner

Medicine, Numbers, People

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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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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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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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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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Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

Sherrod Brown

Rights, Government, Safety

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Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

Steven Rattner

Names, Swamps, Care

"Beyond Obamacare". www.nytimes.com. September 16, 2012.

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The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

Jim Cooper

War, Iraq, Drug

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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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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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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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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 Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.

Steve Rothman

Years, Lasts, Republican

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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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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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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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