Medicaid Quotes

I am dedicated to expanding Medicaid in Mississippi.

— Mike Espy

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

— Steve Scalise

Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.

— Charles Boustany

I think Medicaid harms people.

— Ben Sasse

Medicaid is needed by people who are not of means.

— Al N. Green

Laugh, and you'll live without Medicaid until you're 100.

— Julie Newmar

You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

— Megyn Kelly

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

— Bill Dedman

Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.

— Corrine Brown

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

— John Lewis

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

— James P. Hoffa

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

— Timothy Noah

How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?

— Steve Scalise

I say that Medicaid isn't the only vehicle to be able to purchase coverage or be able to have coverage.

— Tom Price

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

— Phil Bredesen

We can talk about Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. We can talk about school, we can talk about everything. Defense is…

— Donald Trump

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it…

— John Goodman

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is…

— Anonymous

In short order, Obamacare is evolving into a Medicaid marketplace. Not only in terms of the design and quality of the narrow-network…

— Scott Gottlieb

The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.

— Gerald R. Ford

When you take away Medicaid, you're not just taking away care, you're taking away the peace of mind that parents deserve.

— Andy Kim

The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance…

— Al Franken

The bottom line is, what are we doing to Obamacare? We eviscerate the law in our bill, and then we do things…

— Steve Scalise

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is…

— Jim Ryun

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated…

— George Noory

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

Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington…

— Tom Price

I don't think Democrats are ever going to get excited about cutting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to wealthy people. I…

— Claire McCaskill

The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?'…

— Mitt Romney

I have survived ALS to continue my work as a musician and composer for 28 years due to the care I receive…

— Jason Becker

Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with…

— Bernie Sanders

With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

The bad things the U.S. health care system are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass in the…

— Uwe Reinhardt

If a Republican came along and suggested free abortions for people on Medicaid, the first person to stand up would be Jesse…

— Rush Limbaugh

The lack of fairness that we have in the richest country in the world is something that hits my district pretty hard.…

— Sam Rasoul

At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or…

— Malcolm Forbes

Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just…

— Robert Higgs

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

— Jason Chaffetz

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

— Irwin Redlener