Benefits Quote by James Surowiecki

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

The revenue stream for Social Security benefits comes from payroll taxes, which are credited to the Social Security Trust Fund - accounting for the…

— Jerome Powell

“In the United States, 25 percent of all Medicare spending is for the 5 percent of patients who are in their final year of…

— Atul Gawande

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined…

— Christina Romer

I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will…

— Ron Wyden

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

— John B. Larson

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and…

— Chuck Grassley

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What…

— Paul Ryan

You've worked hard all your life. You've paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won't be there for…

— David Frum

Everyone doesn't need Medicare. The people who can afford to pay for their healthcare should pay.

— Angela Stanton-King

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

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of…

— Al Franken