#medicare

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy. ↗

— Dan Bartlett

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I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare. ↗

— John Dingell

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

— Nan Hayworth

#afford #cannot #care #doctors #insists

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern. ↗

— James T. Walsh

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Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history. ↗

— Jim Walsh

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We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

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I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned. ↗

— Barack Obama

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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. ↗

— Barack Obama

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I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate. ↗

— David Obey

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Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage? ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#bankrupt #entitlement #essentially #federal #federal government