Wayne Rogers Quotes

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

We have to end Medicare as we know it. We have to fix it.

I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.

The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.

Obamacare rewrote Medicare... so if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to address those issues as well... What people don't realize is that Medicare is going broke, that Medicare is going to have price controls... So you have to deal with those issues if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare.

We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.

In terms of Medicare, I'm in favor of sitting down and having a serious discussion about the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act, health-care reform, on the cost issue and changing the fee-for-service structure.

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

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.

Socialized medicine ... forced its way into our political vocabulary.

President Obama has already ended Medicare as we know it.

As we face tough decisions in Washington, we must never forget our responsibility to protect Medicare and preserve it for future generations.

I am a supporter of Medicare for All.

The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.

We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'