Political Quotes

“I think that both the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green) and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutsch) both touched on the history of Medicare and who really was responsible for this program, and I think it begs the question of whom do we trust to make changes in Medicare? In 1965, Medicare, with an overwhelming Democratic majority in Congress, the Congress passed the program setting up Medicare. Many Republicans opposed it. In fact, Bob Dole, who was then the leader of the other body and later was the Republican nominee for President in 1996, was in 1995 bragging to a conservative group on whom he counted for the Republican nomination for President, bragging about who he was one fighting against Medicare against its creation in 1965 as a Member of the House of Representatives at that point because he knew it would not work and he wanted to defeat it. Literally the same day, then Speaker Gingrich said he wanted to see Medicare wither on the vine. It is the same group of people that opposed Medicare in 1965. The conservative wing of the Republican party which now dominates the Republican party are the people that really do not like Medicare.”