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We'll reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies and ask more from the wealthiest seniors.

— Barack Obama

Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is…

— John Shimkus

Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health care, child…

— Annie Lowrey

We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare

— Edward Kennedy

I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of…

— David Brooks

From day one, President Biden and this Administration have vowed to strengthen Medicare. Millions of Americans that have paid into this program from their…

— Neera Tanden

I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare…

— Mitch McConnell

We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn't become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing so requires…

— Scott Gottlieb

The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in.…

— Nancy Pelosi

Advocacy groups like Families U.S.A. imagine that once Medicaid becomes a middle-class entitlement, political pressure from middle-class workers will force politicians to address these…

— Scott Gottlieb

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

— Steve Scalise