Away Quote by Anthony Weiner

“The soaring cost of health care has become the greatest threat to the long-term solvency of most advanced nations, and the incurable account for…

— Atul Gawande

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private…

— Barack Obama

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because…

— Anthony Weiner

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid…

— Bernie Sanders

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of…

— Shelley Berkley

“In the United States, 25 percent of all Medicare spending is for the 5 percent of patients who are in their final year of…

— Atul Gawande

Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over…

— Virginia Postrel

Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained…

— Ralph Nader

You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by…

— Bobby Jindal

So overall in the entire economy, the issue is not that health care costs are growing dramatically. The issue is that the burden placed…

— Annie Lowrey

The Medicare program is a great promise we've made to our seniors. But if you start expanding that out to everybody else, you're going…

— Alex Azar

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover…

— Dianne Feinstein