Political Quotes

“I congratulate and thank Dr. Coburn for his significant leadership in this area. Medicare patients all across the country are getting a thick book--150 pages or so. In Wyoming, it is about 150 pages, and it is called ``Medicare and You, 2012.'' Under Dr. Coburn's leadership, we have prepared a report, also called ``Medicare and You, 2012,'' but it is, as I do week after week, a second opinion about the big book people are getting at home. The cover is quite distinct from the book that goes to other Medicare patients around the country, because this starts by saying ``Your Medicare Program was cut $530 billion by President Obama's controversial health care law and used for a brand new program for someone else.'' That is the fundamental problem here. When we talk about Medicare, we think of our parents and others, and I think of so many of my patients on Medicare. We need to strengthen Medicare. What this administration did by taking $530 billion from the health care law has not strengthened Medicare; it devastated Medicare and our seniors on Medicare to the point where the Medicare Actuary said the funding will be exhausted by 2016--5 years from now. We go through that in this report. My concern is that my patients and Dr.…”