Country Quote by Kevin Yoder

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

— Nan Hayworth

They are cutting medicare

— William J. Clinton

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage…

— Timothy Noah

We now have 30 percent, for example, of Medicare patients who are seeing doctors who are rewarded for doing this kind of work, like…

— Atul Gawande

It is a $270 billion cut in medicare

— William J. Clinton

Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in…

— Atul Gawande

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot…

— Dennis Hastert

Hospitals feel like they need to increase prices to make up for treating patients that don't pay their bills or that are not having…

— Mikhail Varshavski

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

— Kevin Drum

“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

I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies.…

— Timothy Noah

“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