David Blunkett Quotes

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.

Jackie Berman, a 64-year-old widow and former special education teacher from Chicago, enrolled in Obamacare. She really needed coverage after sustaining serious injuries from being hit by a car. Now Jackie gets the care she needs at an affordable rate.

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

I am proposing that every person over sixty-five years of age be spared the darkness of sickness without hope.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

No American should ever have to spend his golden years at the mercy of insurance companies.

We must find a way to cover those who are no longer healthy but need care.

Losing access to quality and comprehensive coverage, including for prescription drugs, would be devastating to older Americans.

I don't know many people without pre-existing conditions.

I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor.

We need to protect people with pre-existing conditions, and we need to make sure that we have a safety net for people that can't take care of themselves.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

From routine hospital visits and prescription drugs, to emergencies and hospice care, Medicare covers the full range of health services that our nation's seniors rely on every single day.

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.

I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.

I get all fired up about aging in America.