Entitlement Quote by Jim Ryun

“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 Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of…

— David Limbaugh

“The soaring cost of health care has become the greatest threat to the long-term solvency of most advanced nations, and the incurable account for…

— Atul Gawande

For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of…

— John C. Goodman

Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of…

— John Cornyn

“In 2010, 70 percent of federal tax revenue was consumed by three entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security)”

— Philip K. Howard

You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by…

— Bobby Jindal

The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.

— Kent Conrad

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

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

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private…

— Barack Obama

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