Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.
Tom Coburn
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Everybody on Medicare needs to sit down and say, 'What does this mean to me?' You can't just blow it off.
David Grant
It is going to be difficult for Congress on a one-party basis to make any changes to Medicare to that degree. There's going to have to be a bipartisan interest in this, and the chances of bipartisan interest are slim to none.
Patrick Mayhew
He is opening the debate on entitlements. I think he wants to break the taboo on Medicare.
Phillip Swagel
The whole purpose of this drug benefit was to get drug coverage in the hands of all Medicare beneficiaries. Where are the people? That's the question.
Dan Mendelson
It's the type of business we are — we can't pass the cost along to our customers. We have to go with what insurance and Medicare does.
Dave Allen
Many of these operators are in it just for the money. How could someone on Medicare or Social Security afford $20 a joint?
Richard Eastman
For the Medicare drug benefit to continue without breaking the federal budget, it will be critical that medicines are prescribed based on their effectiveness and track record, not on advertising campaigns.
Gail Shearer
During this transition period, Medicare beneficiaries will face a broad array of new benefit choices for their prescription drug coverage.
Blue Cross
Two-thirds of our patients are the elderly who are on Medicare and fixed incomes.
Tom Ferrara
Everybody who gets Medicare has to pay attention to this.
Helen Marks Dicks
The idea is that anyone moving from DPAP to [the Medicare prescription drug plan] should not be any less off.
Harry Hill
For a while, we encouraged people to hold off enrolling while Medicare got things fixed. But we can't wait any longer. If you want to enroll, do it now.
Jim Varpness
Medicare D is very, very bad. I've never met anybody who thinks it's a good idea.
Stephanie Miller
Just like mammography, we essentially have a preventive health care test that Medicare is mandated to cover.
Robert Lindsay
It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.
Jim Bunning
There's no question Medicare Part D has dampened sales.
David Mackay
There has never been a new item in Medicare as big as this prescription drug program and its components.
Amy Bernstein
Most seniors think that Medicare will help pay for care and they are sorely mistaken.
Scott Stewart
I guess we had talked about his background and questioned him about Medicare. He said he had no problems with Medicare in the past.
Lawrence Story
The prescription-drug benefit is without a doubt the biggest change in the Medicare program since its inception and the biggest new program that Kaiser has had to implement as well.
Denise Hanson
As one (federal Center for Medicaid and Medicare) official told me ... getting approval of a Medicaid waiver without the governor's support would be 'challenging, but not impossible,'.
Greg Moore
There's so much complexity that in a sense the people confused by the benefit are the ones who are the most knowledgeable on Medicare. And for sure, there will be many people who will be confronted with the complexity and, sadly, they will throw their hands up and give up.
Robert Hayes
Now that they have succeeded in controlling cost inflation, this idea of privatizing Medicare opens up a whole new market.
Michael Obuchowski
Medicare Advantage to us doesn't look that great, but I suppose some may have thought it could look even worse.
Patrick Hojlo
This way [Medicare] pays a flat rate and [the providers] will only cash in if they can keep their actual cost below the fixed rate.
Robert Gold
Striking that there are so many businesses that have stepped up to the plate and are apparently eager to enroll people in Medicare.
Tricia Neuman
We have so much Medicare activity going on these days ... and these shysters have taken advantage of that opportunity.
Roger Perez
Every Medicare beneficiary can choose whether they want prescription drug coverage or not.
Tom Daschle
Even though we're really concerned about money, even though we've been cut by Medicare, we still need to continue operations.
Don Crosby
I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.
Jeff Bingaman
We don't understand anything. We get packet after packet from company after company. I've called AARP and Medicare. You don't know who is trying to help you and who is trying to sell you something.
William Wilson
Never again will Medicare beneficiaries have to go to the pharmacy counter without financial assistance to pay for the medicines they need.
Mary Grealy
We're still working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid on some issues.
Tracy Okubo
This is a major change for the Medicare program to include prescription drugs. Are all medicines covered by the plans? No.
Peter Bauer
The Medicare drug program undermines his credibility on health care. But that doesn't mean he can't put forward some positive reforms.
Michael Cannon
Arbitrary caps on Medicare will mean that providers or beneficiaries will have to make up the difference through lower payment rates or higher cost sharing.
William Novelli
Even when you are enrolled in Medicare Part D, it's really worth having that conversation with your doctor.
Gail Shearer
Each member is going to answer for where they were when Medicare went broke.
Phil Gramm
We looked at the Medicare market and knew that it was a growing market. Our first challenge was actually to become approved by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).
Brian Meyer
Once we get our Medicare license, we'll open one wing.
Linda Gholston
Our effort is to change the Medicare drug law. If this campaign had the effect of changing the political environment and that's what is required ... that would be fine with us. But we're not an organization that is principally, or is at all, about electoral campaigns.
Brad Woodhouse
Medicare does not allow for any door-to-door marketing.
Lee Millman
The folks are getting the (prescription) care they need through Medicare, and there are local resources for transportation.
Jonathan Burns
Most of the patients are poor, and on Medicare, and doctors don't make as much money treating those kinds of patients.
Dorothy Moore
Allowing Medicare buy-in for caregivers of Medicare beneficiaries, or tax credits for caregivers' medical expenses, could ease their financial burden.
Sara Collins
We've tried to separate the two issues. We have others issues with the Department of Justice regarding Medicare.
Peter Urbanowicz
Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gross domestic product at only 4.8 percent.
Gail Wilensky
To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.
Michael Johns
It's going to hurt badly. I don't think there is anyway it can happen because there is too many people now that don't have sufficient monies for the things that Medicare would pay for.
Darlene Sullivan
In some cases, Medicare has incomplete or inaccurate data.
Stan Rosenstein
The dilemma we face is the Republicans in Congress have designed this leviathan Medicare D program. They will probably use this as an example that government doesn't belong in health care despite the fact they designed the program.
Rick Dickinson
Continue to speak out against the president's Medicare policies.
Jano Cabrera
You're probably going to have [an] entitlement-reform-type Medicare bill every other year as far as the eye can see.
Stephen Ubl
The effect is pretty narrow when you are talking about drugs that are reimbursed by Medicare.
Mario Corso
Medicare beneficiaries would never accept a drug benefit with sharply reduced drug choices and very limited access to pharmacies.
Mark Merritt
Whatever is in Medicare, ... we're not going to spend it.
Wally Herger
No place in there does he have Medicare protection. You need to lay aside a big chunk of money at the get-go for Medicare.
Elaine Kamarck
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