“But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program.” ThinkingWantDonePresidentIssuesTakenProgramDemocratReformBudgetsAddressesEntitlementMedicarePensionTenureSeniority Author:Antonio Villaraigosa
“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
“What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.” AbleGenerationsProgramDemocratCurrentsReformGrandparentFuture GenerationEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:Jeb Hensarling
“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
“Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.” EffortMediaSeriousProgramReformRevolutionaryCapitalist Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.” HelpingGovernmentMotherInspiringProgramReformWelfareLabourEightyMothers DayLoneWelfare Reform Author:Patricia Hewitt
“In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.” WorldKindChildrenProblemGrowthWealthGoneEconomicHugeAmountBenefitsSpringProgramManagementInternationalPopulationBlowCorruptionReformConcentrationFundMarvelousEgyptWagesMonetaryPostersArab SpringImfWorld BankConcentration Of Wealth Author:Noam Chomsky
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.” NeedsShouldYearsTwoDoneBigsGovernmentOrderCommunityGoneFiveFailingSolutionsYears AgoProgramShould HaveCrisisDemocratReformFrankMacsMaeCorrupt GovernmentDodd Frank Author:Carly Fiorina
“When we didn't succeed at healthcare reform back in 1993, 1994, I went to work with Democrats and Republicans and we created the Children's Health Insurance Program.” ChildrenRepublicanSucceedProgramDemocratReformHealthcareHealthcare Reform Author:Hillary Clinton
“What Bernie Sanders is calling for is incredibly important. Things like a $15/hour minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, taxing the rich, and free education. The radical reforms he has popularized are a key part of any socialist program today.” ImportantTodayHoursRichKeysCallingProgramImportant ThingsRadicalReformHealthcareSocialistMinimumMinimum WageFree Education Author:Kshama Sawant
“Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can build up enough popular support in the United States to put through a reasonable health care program or to support the rights of the working people against the version of NAFTA which was rammed through, these can be good things.” PeopleIfsStatesEnoughCareUnitedUnited StatesSupportRightsExampleProgramGood ThingsBe GoodVersionsReformHealth CareReasonableInitiativeHope For The FutureNafta Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.” NeedsSchoolHealthyProgramMachinesReformLunchItemsVending MachinesSchool Lunch Author:Joan Lunden
“But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksTurnsSocialForgetGenerationsSecurityBenefitsProgramReformRetiringSocial SecurityMy GenerationMedicare Author:Marco Rubio
“We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.” PeopleAgeOrderNextGenerationsPromiseProgramAgingCurrentsReformOrganizedBirthdaySeniorRetiredNext GenerationSaying NoMedicare50th Birthday Author:Paul Ryan
“Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.” EnoughBigsGovernmentCarePartyRepublicanOfficeProgramDemocratSpendingFavorsReformHealth CareVotersHispanicGovernment SpendingHealth Care ReformOutreach Author:Gail Collins