Affluent Quote by David Brooks

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

— Anonymous

Remember, there are no cuts to Medicaid. Every year in Medicaid, you spend more money than you spent the year before under this plan,…

— Roy Blunt

Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally.…

— Josh Earnest

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

Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on…

— Ted Cruz

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

— Steve Scalise

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue…

— John Thune

When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were…

— John Breaux

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that…

— Timothy Noah

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

— Phil Bredesen

I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going…

— Pat Toomey

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up…

— Bennie Thompson