Allen West Quotes

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

We're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 - age 55 to 64 a chance to buy in, then we're reconnecting with some of those ideals that go back to the great days of FDR.

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest.

When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card.

[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.

I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who were in the majority when we passed the original legislation in 1997.

Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

We are not for cutting social welfare and are for more health care.

One of the best moments of the Obama presidency was the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

When former president Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans for the program that would become Medicaid, he reflected on the future of public policy in the United States.

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in.

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.

If you're one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance. This law will only make it more secure and more affordable.