America Quote by Dennis Hastert

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

Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the…

— Jim Bunning

Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors…

— John Garamendi

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

— John Podesta

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

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

— Corrine Brown

Medicare has provided healthcare coverage for older Americans and disabled persons for 50 years, and I believe that steps must be taken to ensure…

— Seth Moulton

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in…

— Clayton Christensen

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're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 -…

— Dennis Kucinich

Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the…

— John B. Larson

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income,…

— John F. Kerry