For one thing, Medicaid is an inefficient if not ineffective platform for redistributing income. It doesn't get the dollars to poor people… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated… — George Noory Copy Share Image
I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels in Indiana, the woman who's coming in to run the Medicaid program at the federal level, her… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
The Medicaid program has been on the books for more than 50 years. The Graham-Cassidy bill proposes a dramatic, sweeping change in… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has… — Ruth Ann Minner Copy Share Image
What I was saying back then was that we have a lot of public health costs that taxpayers end up paying for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision. — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid. — Franklin Raines Copy Share Image
You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
We're going to be aggressive on Wall Street and in Albany and on Medicaid fraud. — Dan Donovan Copy Share Image
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Patients would be better off if states were able to tailor the benefits that Medicaid covers - targeting resources to sicker people… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Here in Maine, we've expanded Medicaid, put protections in place for seniors and people with pre-existing conditions, cracked down on big drug… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
Medicaid covers vitally needed medical care for millions of people in New York. Compliance with billing requirements ensures the financial integrity of… — Audrey Strauss Copy Share Image
We're not going to end the Medicaid. We're going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“Medicaid only allowed you three choices of frames...ugly, uglier, and fuckin rape prevention birth control!” — Jeff Erno Copy Share Image
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and… — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
The federal government would give money to the states. States would be able to negotiate at local rates. It's not Medicaid. People… — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned. — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
This legislation provides Medicaid eligibility to evacuees and residents in (Federal Emergency Management Agency) designated disaster counties, .. It also helps pay… — Thad Cochran Copy Share Image
We believe we can dramatically improve the way Medicaid works by giving governors more control and flexibility to innovate to make it… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The fact is that Medicaid doesn't even serve well the medical needs of people who should be its principal focus - Americans… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Maybe this Democratic president[Barack Obama] did and can get comprehensive health care reform passed, but notice, Medicaid is not expanded in any… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims.… — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
You can get a lot done when you don't care about credit. My name was not on Medicaid expansion, but it never… — Gretchen Whitmer Copy Share Image
Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike. — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue. — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
What is Medicaid all about? It's staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind. — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Copy Share Image