#medicare

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#form #health #health care #know #medicare

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare. ↗

— John Podesta

#included #medicare #medicine #practiced #prescriptions

Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#baby #baby boomers #begin #boomers #disabled

The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#administration #always #bill #budget #completely

There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut. ↗

— Kevin Yoder

#cut #doctor #end #every #folks

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

#before #bush #dead #george #george bush

For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#cut #democrats #did #future #future generations

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

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year. ↗

— Clayton M. Christensen

#health-care #medicare #age

It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#clarity #costs #entitlement #informing #integrity