Attention Quote by Virginia Postrel

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

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not

— Bennie Thompson

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because…

— Anthony Weiner

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such…

— Andrew Weil

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

— Angela Stanton-King

If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's…

— Barack Obama

For decades, cost-conscious Republicans criticized the way health care is delivered in our country. They argued that generous insurance plans, combined with the fee-for-service…

— Neera Tanden

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

— Nan Hayworth

The Medicare program is a great promise we've made to our seniors. But if you start expanding that out to everybody else, you're going…

— Alex Azar

The truth is that Republicans are not actually worried about accountability or giving Americans more health care options. They are not even worried about…

— Neera Tanden

As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

— Diana DeGette

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in…

— Anthony Weiner