Being Quote by Art Buchwald

When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am,…

— Art Buchwald

It is one thing to choose to go into a hospice; it's another thing to get on the air and tell everybody about it.

— Art Buchwald

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

— Richard Dooling

Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.

— Harmon Killebrew

Hospice has brought such a light in my life. It is something I will be involved with until I need hospice myself.

— Torrey DeVitto

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

— Eleanor Clift

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

— Ronald Reagan

Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how…

— Betsy McCaughey

So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this…

— Art Buchwald

“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

I am fighting kidney cancer. And I'm just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could concentrate on the care that…

— Mazie Hirono

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would…

— Herman Cain