Medicare Quotes - Page 9

• The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in 1980 and see what they really believe in. They wanted to abolish huge swaths of the U.S. government, including the Internal Revenue Service. They want to get rid of Social Security. They'd like to get rid of Medicare. They'd like to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, which directly affects their business.

  Jane Mayer

  Party, Believe, Agency

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Believe me, every American, every person in this country, if I have anything to say about it, will know precisely what is going on with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, because they are beginning to appoint people who are typical right-wing Republicans who want to privatize and cut Social Security.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Cutting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.

  Bernie Sanders

  Ideas, America, Health Education

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight.

  George Singleton

  Party, Doctors, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Priorities, Challenges

  "Tax cuts likely to be an issue in 2000 elections" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. July 28, 1999.

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• Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office - like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security - are inalienable rights. They are not.

  Ben Shapiro

  Believe, Rights, Office

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• Entitlements is not sic the issue. And if so, cool heads can sit down and engage the American people and tell us how many seniors in nursing homes do we want to throw out in the street? ... And then who wants to make a fuss about Medicare when it's solvent until 2024? ... Who wants to make a fuss about Social Security when it's solvent - and it's about, 'You earned it'?

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Senior, Home, Nursing

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

  Mark McKinnon

  America, Ends, Knows

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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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• Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Political, Matter

  "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz, www.nbcnews.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

  James Q. Wilson

  Believe, Care, Poor

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

  John Podesta

  Medicine, Today, Way

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• With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Risk, Groups, Different

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.196, Transaction Publishers

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• Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.

  John Shimkus

  Senior, Real, Focus

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• Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Long, Campaigns, Information

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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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• He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens.

  Andrew Card

  Motivation, Real, Government

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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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• 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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