Political Quotes

“I think this is a question of leadership, what kind of leadership we are going to see not only out of the White House but out of the U.S. Senate. I think the rhetoric to date has not served this institution well. There is, indeed, a crisis in Medicare. We are not talking about a health care crisis, we are talking about a Medicare crisis. We are talking about a trust fund problem that says there is not enough money in the trust fund to be able to fund Medicare past a 7-year window. That is immediate, that is real, and that is something that we have to deal with, and I believe we will only deal with if we do so in a bipartisan way. If this becomes a partisan issue where one seeks to take political gain at the expense of doing something that is responsible action, we will not succeed and the trust fund will continue to go further and further to the brink of insolvency, and we will be left with not a lot of options but very dramatic choices that are going to affect a lot of taxpayers and a lot of seniors and the availability of Medicare benefits into the future.”