Medicare Quotes · Page 2

We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.

— Steve Scalise

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

— Kinky Friedman

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.

— Marco Rubio

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

— Ishmael Reed

We have over 100,000 bridges in this country old enough to qualify for Medicare.

— Mike Quigley

The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.

— Steve Rothman

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you, sir.

— Allen West

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

— Bennie Thompson

It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs…

— John Ensign

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50…

— Anonymous

I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not…

— Thruston Ballard Morton

I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.

— Rick Perry

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

— Charles Duhigg

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to…

— Barbara Mikulski

Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and…

— Gary Johnson

If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you…

— Arthur Laffer

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you…

— Richard Lamm

There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I…

— Ronald Reagan

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name –…

— Steven Rattner

We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as…

— Eric Cantor

I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough…

— Mark Steyn

Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is…

— Naomi Wolf

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program,…

— Bennie Thompson

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the…

— James Surowiecki

What I think people should realize is that programs like Social Security, programs like Medicare, programs like the Veterans Administration, programs like…

— Bernie Sanders

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…

— Michael Hudson

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

“New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. A couple of weeks ago, I…

— Bill Maher

Immigration, ladies and gentlemen, is not an entitlement. Yet that's how it is treated by the Democrats, by the Drive-By Media. That's…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Affordable Care Act is a huge problem. [Repealing the ACA is] going to have huge implications. We have millennials that live…

— Marty Walsh

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal…

— Abbie Hoffman

5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I.…

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Mitch Daniels

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

— Dan Bartlett

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

— Kevin Drum

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

— Mike Pence

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

— Kamala Harris

Medicare should be allowed to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices on prescriptions.

— Jaime Harrison

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

— Barack Obama

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

— David Limbaugh