“Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.” FirstsDifferentCareLawPresidentProgramHealth CarePresident ObamaCoverageMedicaidHealth Coverage Author:Fred Upton
“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.” NeedsTryingProblemSocialPresidentSecuritySeriousProgramReformAddressesSocial SecurityDeficitEntitlementMedicareMedicaidEntitlement ProgramsMedicare And Medicaid Author:John W. Snow
“Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.” WellsChildrenKidsMillionsEconomyProgramCoveredReach OutMedicaid Author:Franklin Raines
“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.” GovernmentRunningWasteProgramSavedFraudMedicareMisuseMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Chuck Grassley
“The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.” ShouldCareRolesNeededProgramOvercomingHealth CareBarriersMedicareFinancingMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President
“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.” NeedsSeemsLeftProtectTaxesProgramFocusedSpendingReformPreservesObsessedMore MoneyRestraintEntitlementMedicareOverlookedMedicaid Author:Fred Upton
“Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.” YearsDoeHelpingGrowsPercentProgramRateCongressAverageReformBudgetsMedicareMedicaid Author:John Cornyn
“Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.” HelpingJobsFeetProgramDown AndFaultsGet BackUnemploymentStampsFood StampsMedicaidLaid Off Author:Hank Johnson
“No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.” WarMatterSocialSecurityDrugTaxesProgramNo Matter WhatIncomeMessGiantsSocial SecurityInterventionIncome TaxMedicareWar On DrugsIrsMedicaid Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.” ThinkingWayStatesCuttingHugeRepublicanProgramPrioritiesBlockBudgetsFortunatePretendingAttackingEntitlementMessed UpSaluteMedicaidEntitlement Programs Author:David Brooks
“Secretary [Hillary ] Clinton is absolutely right, there are people, Koch brothers among others, who have a group called Concerned Veterans of America, funded by the Koch brothers. The Koch brothers, by the way, want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, every governmental program passed since the 1930s. Yes, there are people out there who want to privatize it.” PeopleWayWantAmericaSocialGroupsSecurityBrotherConcernedProgramClintonSecretaryVeteranSocial SecurityMedicare1930sMedicaid Author:Bernie Sanders
“My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program.” StatesProgramDoctorsGovernorsWalkersMedicaid Author:Paul Ryan
“Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels in Indiana, the woman who`s coming in to run the Medicaid program at the federal level, her name is Seema Verma, a brilliant young woman, she made Indiana - healthy Indiana work so that actually low-income people in Indiana, actually have real healthcare coverage that they get access to a doctor. Those kinds of reforms on the state level we want see happen in all 50 states.” PeopleWantKindMadeRealStatesHappensRunningYoungNamesLevelsHealthyLowsProgramDoctorsBrilliantAccessIncomeReformHealthcareYoung WomenMikeCoverageIndianaLow IncomeMedicaid Author:Paul Ryan
“I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.” ThinkingNeedsSocialSecurityProgramSunshineRighteousSocial SecurityMedicareScrutinyMedicaid Author:Rick Perry
“We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.” IfsBelieveWellsChoicesResultsConcernedProgramMechanismMedicareMedicaidPersonal ChoiceMedicare And Medicaid Author:Eric Cantor