Medicare Quotes - Page 4

• Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

  Paul Gillmor

  Senior, Drug, Citizens

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• President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won’t admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Senior, Eight, Average

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, Threat

  Twitter post from Aug 30, 2012

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• The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.

  Howard Dean

  Retirement, Moving, Cutting

  Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2003.

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• On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Drug, Firsts, Benefits

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• Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Years, Vat

  "Madeleine Albright, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Kent Conrad and David Cote". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 14, 2010.

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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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• In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

  Jim Ryun

  Growing, Next, Facts

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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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• I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Moving

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet we are spending almost twice as much per capita. We have a massively dysfunctional health care system. And I do believe in a Medicare for all single-payer system, whether a small state like Vermont can lead the nation, which I certainly hope we will, or whether it's California or some other state.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, California

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Cutting, Long

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• From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.

  Chuck Todd

  Children, Government, Drug

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• We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

  John W. Snow

  Medicare And Medicaid, Trying, President

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card.

  Jack Layton

  Health, Sick, Cards

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• 5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!

  Joseph Conrad

  Country, Citizens, Care

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• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  Ben Bernanke

  Defense, Entitlement, Social

  "Economic Challenges: Past, Present, and Future". Speech at the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas, Texas, www.federalreserve.gov. April 07, 2010.

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• Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not

  Bennie Thompson

  Equal, Private Sector, Coverage

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• Immigration, ladies and gentlemen, is not an entitlement. Yet that's how it is treated by the Democrats, by the Drive-By Media. That's how it's considered. It's no different than Medicaid, no different than Medicare, and its purpose is to benefit the victims of the evil United States. That is not what immigration is, but that's what it has become - and as such, common sense about it is totally missed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Evil, Common Sense, Gentleman

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

  John Lewis

  Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid, Social

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Right now, what my job is - pardon me? Those are just words. Right now, what my - my job is right now going beyond media conflicts and words is to say that Donald Trump, among other things, told the American people he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and right now Republicans in the House and Senate are doing just that.

  John Lewis

  Jobs, Cutting, Media

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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