Future Quote by Brian Schatz

At the heart of President Barack Obama's health-care plan is an insurance program funded by taxpayers, administered by Washington, and open to everyone. Modeled…

— Scott Gottlieb

A major part of the conservative plans to reform Medicaid turn on the assumption that states will be better able to manage the program,…

— Scott Gottlieb

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

The Medicaid program has been on the books for more than 50 years. The Graham-Cassidy bill proposes a dramatic, sweeping change in the way…

— Susan Collins

Even with all its political bells and whistles, the Obamacare plans increasingly resemble Medicaid in terms of networks and drug lists.

— Scott Gottlieb

What is Medicaid all about? It's staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind.

— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program.

— Paul Ryan

“Well, “maybe it is,” Chotiner wrote, “but the Republican Party must do something more than point out the evils of the administration’s plan—it must…

— John A. Farrell

Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We…

— Lisa Murkowski

“Still, the exaggerations of Johnson and other liberals at the time came to haunt them within a few years. Talk about the "healing miracle…

— James T. Patterson

I'm very, very concerned ultimately, as Medicaid costs increase in my state and most states, it's going to reduce funding for state aid to…

— Dave Heineman

The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget…

— Al Franken