Now, the Democrats this week are going to pass one of the missing links to allow Medicare to negotiate prices and drive down drug costs and then carry that over to private insuranc...
I just can't help but say, 'Thank God for Medicare and Medicaid.' Where would people in this country be without that coverage?
This is not something where you can say we are going to get something that looks like something elsewhere in the world.
To give you a flavor for what that means as a matter of public finances, if you were to finance that in the traditional fashion of Medicare ...
to achieve universal healthcare for the American people.
let me express on behalf of all of the members of the committee, both sides of the aisle, for not only accepting our invitation to be here t...
That is a very--that is not an answer.
To have a program that has an unfathomable 45 percent in the last 3 years, that is what it has fallen by.
I consider this a moral issue. A moral issue. And why? Because we are talking about veterans. We are talking about the elderly. We are talki...
It's hard to see these developments as anything but intentional efforts to weaken an important social safety net program.
We are not just States in America. We are the United States of America, so we need a policy that is going to serve everyone.