Medicare Quotes

You're talking about a real problem facing this country at the very moment when we're expecting something like 70 to 80 million baby boomers to retire and to add additional costs to Social Security and Medicare. We're headed towards a fiscal cliff. - Leon Panetta

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program. - Paul Ryan

You will get a quicker answer if you call your plan directly to check your enrollment and to resolve issues with your premium payments. Medicare and Social Security are working together to resolve this issue. - Lorraine Ryan

You need to look at these plans with a fine-toothed comb to see if they carry your medications. When the Medicare Modernization Act was passed, there was a lot of discussion that private health insurance companies wouldn't get into the act because it would be too hard to make a profit. But the proof will be in the pudding. If they aren't making a profit, they'll get out of this. - Dr. Ronald T. Rozett

You know, to listen to Senator Lieberman, Senator Kerry, Representative Gephardt, I'm anti-Israel, I'm anti-trade, I'm anti-Medicare and I'm anti-Social Security. I wonder how I ended up in the Democratic Party. I'm not a new entrant to the Democratic Party. I've been here a long time. - Howard Dean

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care. - Corrine Brown

You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year. - Bobby Jindal

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

Without a doubt, medical affairs departments are struggling to maintain their strategic impact amid regulatory changes and the introduction of new industry guidelines. With the OIG guidance and the potential effects of Medicare Part D, medical affairs departments have turned to globalization to implement standards of practice across all their organizations. - Elio Evangelista