Top 193 Medicaid Quotes & Sayings

We're going to expand access to health care by expanding Medicaid in my state.

Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.

Remember, there are no cuts to Medicaid. Every year in Medicaid, you spend more money than you spent the year before under this plan, but the growth is not as great as it would be if you continued to pay, for instance, 100 percent for single able-bodied adults. Now, there is something wrong with the way that system is put together.

Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.

We got to protect Medicaid.

Medicaid covers vitally needed medical care for millions of people in New York. Compliance with billing requirements ensures the financial integrity of the Medicaid program.

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.

Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

The Medicaid expansion enacted under Obamacare is unaffordable for the taxpayers of Kentucky and should be repealed.

In the course of his ongoing crusade for Medicaid expansion, Ohio governor John Kasich has suggested that Ronald Reagan, Saint Peter, and God Himself all would support his plan to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.

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

We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.

We have a failing Medicaid system, and you know who that's going to hurt in the end are the most vulnerable in people in our society.

What Medicaid basically does is allows them to choose the two base years that they would calculate current their reimbursement levels on. And they all have per-capita allotments based upon what the states are experiencing today in terms of Medicaid costs. And then those are inflated over the years, the next decade, increased at the rate of inflation. And so they have to figure out how to take those dollars and put them to the best use in the state.

People think I'm rich and I'm making all this money off these rocket launches. Hell I'm on Medicaid!

Governor Kasich has done some things that I applaud and have supported and spoken out in favor of, such as Medicaid expansion.

I have been outspoken on my opposition to 'Obamacare,' and I don't buy the line that our Medicaid program, or any function of government, has reached maximum efficiency.

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

Kentucky HEALTH will allow us to continue to provide expanded Medicaid coverage. But unlike the current Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, it will do so in a fiscally responsible manner that ensures better health outcomes for recipients.

The federal government would give money to the states. States would be able to negotiate at local rates. It's not Medicaid. People didn't want it to be Medicaid in Washington, either.

Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.

Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.

It's nonsense. If, in fact, putting one out of four people in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid created 12,000 jobs and $30 billion in economic prosperity, why wouldn't we put every single person in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid? We'd create 48,000 jobs by that logic and $120 billion worth of economic advantage.

Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.

My children almost died during my pregnancy because doctors wouldn't take my concerns seriously, dismissing me as just another black woman on Medicaid.

I think if you look at Medicare and Medicaid, the premise was that government needs to provide some assistance to people who aren't able to take care of themselves. I think we all share that goal, Republicans and Democrats. I don't think anybody's gonna go back now and say, Let's abolish, or reduce, Medicare and Medicaid. But as we confront the challenges and the responsibilities of our time - from here on - how do we serve more people or different people who are in need of financial assistance? Just forever having the government expand to address all of that seems unwise.

You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

What is Medicaid all about? It's staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind.

Medicaid and Medicare both need to be devolved to the states.

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

Eviction often leads to a disruption in critical services like Medicaid and nutrition assistance when families need them most.

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

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

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody well.

You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

We`re not going to end the Medicaid. We`re going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to make Medicaid work.

One of the challenges in the Affordable Care Act was that it prejudiced the Medicaid system very much in favor of able-bodied adults, away from the more traditional Medicaid populations of the aged, the disabled, pregnant women, and children.

I've been a vocal advocate for Medicaid expansion, which is why I co-sponsored legislation to incentivize states like Kansas to expand Medicaid by starting the amount the federal government matches state's investment for expansion at 100 percent.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.

The bad things the U.S. health care system are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors that human beings have different values depending on their income status. For example, in New Jersey, the Medicaid program pays a pediatrician $30 to see a poor child on Medicaid. But the same legislators, through their commercial insurance, pay the same pediatrician $100 to $120 to see their child. How do physicians react to it? If you phone around practices in Princeton, Plainsboro, Hamilton - none of them would see Medicaid kids.

Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn’t be put on the table by Democrats for any reason...

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

We're going to be aggressive on Wall Street and in Albany and on Medicaid fraud.

Laugh, and you'll live without Medicaid until you're 100.

Even with all its political bells and whistles, the Obamacare plans increasingly resemble Medicaid in terms of networks and drug lists.

Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

I don't think Democrats are ever going to get excited about cutting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to wealthy people. I just don't think that's the direction we should be going in our country. The 1 percent's doing very well in America. They don't need more help. But Medicaid does.

My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program.

I think Medicaid harms people.

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.