#medicare

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#care #everyone #health #health care #i

I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#aspect #believe #care #get #guarantee

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#beneficiaries #cancer #care #cure #ensure

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 Medicaid that can be saved. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#generally #lot #medicaid #medicare #misuse

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#bankruptcy #facing #gave #means #medicare

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#enrolling #great #medicare #medicare prescription drug #most

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#food #fought #government #medicare #organized

It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#bill #body #energy #energy bill #everything

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#doctor #enacted #first #medicare #medications

We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#allow #as far as #believe #better #choice