#medicare

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#dead #economist #john #long #long run

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen. ↗

— Fred Upton

#back #because #benefit #benefiting #benefits

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#create #dollars #five #health #health care

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

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

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#dollars #half #medicare #need #out

Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#campaign #consistently #despite #eligible #indicated

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over.That's what the American people want us to do. ↗

— John McCain

#american people #broke #going #know #medicare

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#attempts #benefits #companies #history #medicare