Coverage Quote by Bennie Thompson

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

— Virginia Postrel

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

— Bennie Thompson

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

We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.

— Sharron Angle

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

If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's…

— Barack Obama

Everyone doesn't need Medicare. The people who can afford to pay for their healthcare should pay.

— Angela Stanton-King

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

We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up…

— Bernie Sanders

Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing,…

— Thomas Sowell

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

— Anonymous

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

— John B. Larson