#medicare

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#create #credits #deductions #estate #favor

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

— Nan Hayworth

#afford #cannot #care #doctors #insists

You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#comparing #dollars #every #federal #growth

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

— James T. Walsh

#continue #fund #future #how #into

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

— Jim Walsh

#american history #citizens #created #financially #generation

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders? ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#because #care #costs #defending #efficiency

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

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#categories #congressional #dramatically #federal #federal spending

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits. ↗

— Rand Paul

#make #medicare #more #pay #rich

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