Quotes of: Medicare Keyword

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

Clayton Christensen

Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare.

Louie Gohmert

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

Corrine Brown

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

Sherrod Brown

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

Bennie Thompson

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

David Limbaugh

Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare.

Charles Duhigg

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.

Robert Byrd

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

Paul Ryan

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

Tom Coburn

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Michael Burgess

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

Nan Hayworth

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

Mitch Daniels

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

Roy Blunt

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

Tim Pawlenty

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

Jim Walsh

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

Bob Inglis

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

Dan Bartlett

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

Al Franken

Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives.

Tim Murphy

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

Mitch Daniels