Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quotes

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

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

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

Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national healthcare program for children, even though it's a lot more cost-effective to deal with children than with seniors.

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.

Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare

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

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

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.

Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.

I told them I would work to strengthen and secure Medicare for generations to come, and I told them I would fight for a new prescription drug benefit under Medicare.

In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, we have made a commitment to provide health care for those over 65. In order to pay for this, each of us should contribute the same, flat percentage of our earned income.

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

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

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

Medicare is more than just a program. It reflects our values. It’s one way we honor parents and grandparents and protect our families across the generations.

These are not small reforms; these are big reforms. If passed, this will be the most important piece of social legislation since the Social Security Act passed in the 1930s and the most important reform of our health care system since Medicare passed in the 1960s.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid Programs.

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

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

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you, sir.

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

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.

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.