#medicare

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

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#care #everyone #health #health care #i

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#keep #made #medicare #must #promises

I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american dream #believe #children #dream #grandchildren

Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#billions #care #could #dollars #eliminate

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare. ↗

— Ron Paul

#debt #exploding #medicare #noticed #you

Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick. ↗

— Harry Reid

#broke #call #companies #ensure #get

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#care #counsel #end-of-life #get #i

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#advocate #believe #enactment #essential #former

This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#billion #budget #coming #country #crisis