#medicaid

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#both #choice #cuts #drastic #education

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#changes #deal #expansion #federal #federal government

The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget. ↗

— John Kitzhaber

#budget #eating #important #level #medicaid

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

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid. ↗

— John W. Snow

#addressed #deficit #entitlement #entitlement programs #like

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned. ↗

— Fred Upton

#care #coverage #different #envisioned #first

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid. ↗

— Fred Upton

#entitlement #even #focused #future #heavily

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

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#business #care #cost #hidden #income

Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#fixing #idea #medicaid #terrible #without