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What are your thoughts on Medicare?
“More than 110,000 seniors in North Dakota rely on Medicare to help cover doctor visits and purchase needed prescriptions, and more than 65,000 low-income North Dakotans count on Medicaid to do the same. These programs are an instrumental part of that safety net to make sure seniors, those with disabilities, and low-income families in North Dakota and across the country can live with dignity, and I’ll keep pushing to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid for the next 50 years.”
– Senator Heidi Heitkamp (ND)
What are your thoughts on Medicare?
“The enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid programs have made a world of difference in access to medical care for older Americans and low-income Americans…Medicare and Medicaid are not perfect programs by any stretch, but there is no doubt they have helped millions of Americans to have access to healthcare, and extended countless lives. If they had never been created, our country would be a much different place, and not for the better.”
– Tim Johnson, former senator (SD)
What are your thoughts on Medicare?
“Before enactment, fewer than half of Americans over the age of 65 had health insurance. In part, that was because so many had pre-existing conditions that precluded them from purchasing it. But even if they could, seniors regularly had to pay three to four times the premium of younger adults. Since enactment, more than 95% of all of us over the age of 65 have health insurance. A remarkable achievement.”
– Tom Daschle, former senator (SD)
