Political Quotes

“All you have to do is look back 30 years, 31 years in the celebration today of the 31 years since Medicare was signed. Thirty-one years ago half the people in, half the elderly in this country had no health insurance. This is a Government program that works. Ninety-nine percent of America's elderly now have health insurance. We can make it better, but do not dismantle it, do not privatize it, do not turn it over to these special interest groups, these big insurance companies that have given a lot of money to politicians just so they can play with this huge program that has served the American public well. We have got to deal with costs, we have got to deal with some of the difficulties of Medicare, but it is a program that works. It is a program that has taken care of our parents and our grandparents, and we have got to make sure it takes care of them and it takes care of our generation and the next generation, and we can do that. But it works because it is universal. It works because it insures everybody. It insures black people, and white people, and brown people. It insures Republicans and Democrats. It does not matter, the rich and the poor. It insures everybody, and it works because it is a broad-based insurance program. Do not let insurance companies peel off the most healthy people and let them benefit from that and leave everybody else in a sinking ship.”