Medicare Quotes - Page 5

• That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, Doctors, People

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Donald Trump has said he wants to keep Medicare and Social Security the way they are. Congressman Price along with most Republicans are on record supporting voucherizing Medicare. So there are going to be some conflicts to resolve there.

  Mara Liasson

  Records, Want, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm not quite sure,this is the issue that is on the minds of the American people right now, who basically want to make sure that Donald Trump keeps the promises that he made when he said he was not going to cut Social Security and Medicare.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Issues, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We need to work on drug costs, and there's things we can work on on drug costs, especially Medicare Part D, to bring drug costs down.

  Tim Kaine

  Drug, Needs, Cost

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.

  Ralph Nader

  Doctors, People, Choices

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's not going to be possible for insurance companies to simply pass on those costs to Medicare recipients, because ultimately it's Uncle Sam that's paying for those services anyway.

  Barack Obama

  Uncles, People, Bangs

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Debt, Social

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• We can meet the obligations of Social security and Medicare. If we stay on the path that your party has us on, we'll be in a mountain range of debt and we're gonna face hard choices.

  Mike Pence

  Party, Mountain Ranges, Choices

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I happened to favor the other piece of legislation and thought that it would be better for the senior citizens to provide better care than the one that was finally passed.

  Ronald Reagan

  Senior, Would Be, Citizens

  Presidential debate, October 28, 1980.

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• I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.

  Robert Hurt

  Jobs, Cutting, Government

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• Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This is not only immoral it is bad economics. Why do Republicans always have money for war but not for those in need?

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid

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• Today, all across this country there are going to be rallies led by Democrats and others to fight against the devastating impact of repeal of the Affordable Care Act. 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

  John Lewis

  Senior, Country, Fighting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What sensible people have got to do is not simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without any alternative, but you've got to sit down and say it's OK, what are the problems. How do we address it? How do we move to universal health care? How do we lower prescription drug costs? How do we make sure that people don't have outrageous deductibles? You just don't throw 20 million people off of health insurance. You don't privatize Medicare.

  John Lewis

  Moving, People, Drug

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There are no plans in President-elect [Donald] Trump's policies moving forward to touch Medicare and Social Security.

  Reince Priebus

  Moving, President, Social

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think the thing with Medicare - and a lot of this - I should say, with Medicaid - and this is going to depend - states are going to be in a position to have a lot of flexibility.

  John Thune

  Thinking, Flexibility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We now have 30 percent, for example, of Medicare patients who are seeing doctors who are rewarded for doing this kind of work, like high blood pressure control. So, the Affordable Care Act has pushed this direction down the road.

  Atul Gawande

  Care, Patient, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Cuba harbor fugitives of American justice. There are people living on the island of Cuba who have violated American law, including those who have stolen millions of dollars from Medicare fraud in South Florida and have fled to Cuba. Those are three reasons right there to care about what is happening on the island of Cuba, which happens to be 90 miles from our shores, basically a neighboring country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, People, Justice

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• President-elect Trump has made very clear he wants to make good on the promises that we as a nation have made to the seniors who rely upon Medicare and certainly the lower-income Americans who rely upon Medicaid and other entitlements like Social Security, frankly, for those who receive that.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Senior, Promise, Entitlement

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The current U.S. and Eurozone depression isn't because of China. It's because of domestic debt deflation. Commodity prices and consumer spending are falling, mainly because consumers have to pay most of their wages to the FIRE sector for rent or mortgage payments, student loans, bank and credit card debt, plus over 15 percent FICA wage withholding for Social Security and Medicare actually, to enable the government to cut taxes on the higher income brackets, as well income and sales taxes.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Cutting, Students

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If I decide to run I am gonna cherish senior citizens. Living in New York that's what I see is Democrats all over the place - are going to do is say it's attack on Medicare. And Medicare to a lot of people means seniors. And I honestly think you have to go down the line in a bipartisan way. You have to go down with the Democrats. I don't think they should be too far out in front.

  Donald Trump

  Senior, Running, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Obamacare, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and Medicare and federal government solutions. But if you think through the analysis, strengthening state rights is a good corrective of the aggregation of an over-reaching federal power.

  Naomi Wolf

  Hippie, Thinking, San Francisco

  "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• The Affordable Care Act is a huge problem. [Repealing the ACA is] going to have huge implications. We have millennials that live in Boston that are on their parents' health insurance. The businesses have hired them and have been able to hire more people because they have been able to be on their own health insurance. We have seniors in our city who have preexisting conditions, or something called a "donut hole," which is a prescription drug [gap] in Medicare. Whatever changes they make could have detrimental effects on people's health care, but also on the economy.

  Marty Walsh

  Senior, Boston, Cities

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Real, Kids, Passing On

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Fighting, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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