Bureaucrats Quote by Ed Crane

“we lose tens of billions of dollars to Medicare and Medicaid fraud every year. This is something we have not been able to control,…

— Ben Carson

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for…

— Barack Obama

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

— Anonymous

20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back…

— Bernie Sanders

I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on…

— William J. Clinton

And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform…

— Ben Quayle

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care…

— Ron Wyden

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being…

— Paul Ryan

I think if you look at Medicare and Medicaid, the premise was that government needs to provide some assistance to people who aren't able…

— Tim Pawlenty

“If we are ever going to have adequate funding for health care and other major line items in our budget, however, we have to…

— Ben Carson

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than…

— Rush Limbaugh

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing…

— Judd Gregg