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“I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens.”

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Author:Andrew Card

“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.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.”

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Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.”

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Author:John Shimkus

“I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.”

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Author:John Dingell

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

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Author:John Podesta

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

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Author:James Q. Wilson

“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.”

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Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.”

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Author:Mitch Daniels

“The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.”

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Author:Mitch Daniels

“The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money”

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Author:Robert Byrd

“Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.”

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Author:Dan Bartlett

“I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.”

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Author:Jeff Bingaman

“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.”

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Author:Ben Bernanke

“The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.”

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Author:Bruce Bartlett

“You've worked hard all your life. You've paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won't be there for you. Instead of Medicare as it exists now, under the Republican plan you'll get a voucher that will pay as little as half your Medicare costs when you turn 65—and as little as a quarter in your 80s. And all so that millionaires and billionaires can have a huge tax cut.”

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Author:David Frum

“Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.”

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Author:Sherrod Brown

“And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.”

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Author:James T. Walsh

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

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Author:James T. Walsh

“The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population in the U.S. but also an increased lifespan for people with HIV due to antiretroviral medicines and other treatment advances.”

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Author:David Mixner

“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.”

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Author:Sue Kelly

“If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.”

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Author:Arthur Laffer

“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.”

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Author:Clayton Christensen

“I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not be financed through a payroll tax.”

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Author:Thruston Ballard Morton

“This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older citizens purchase hospital and medical insurance without Government assistance. This private effort would cease if Government benefits were given to all our older citizens.”

“...we cannot stand idly by now, as the Nation is urged to embark on an ill-conceived adventure in government medicine, the end of which no one can see, and from which the patient is certain to be the ultimate sufferer.”

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Author:Durward Gorham Hall

“We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.”

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Author:James B. Utt

“It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.”

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Book:Forty years against the tide: Congress and the welfare state

Source: Forty years against the tide: Congress and the welfare state

“Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.”

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Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.”

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Author:Paul Krugman

“The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.”

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Author:Steve Rothman

“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.”

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Author:Kevin Yoder

“We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.”

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Author:Bob Inglis

“Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.”

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Author:Anthony Weiner

“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.”

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Author:Jim Bunning

“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.”

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Author:Jim Cooper

“Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.”

“Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.”

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Author:Annabel Park

“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.”

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Author:Richard Dooling

“They are cutting medicare”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“It is a $270 billion cut in medicare”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare”

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Author:Edward Kennedy

“Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.”

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Author:Bennie Thompson

“Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.”

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Author:A. Philip Randolph

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