Charles Boustany Quotes

We got to protect Medicaid.

I think Medicaid harms people.

When former president Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans for the program that would become Medicaid, he reflected on the future of public policy in the United States.

We have a failing Medicaid system, and you know who that's going to hurt in the end are the most vulnerable in people in our society.

I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.

Governor Kasich has done some things that I applaud and have supported and spoken out in favor of, such as Medicaid expansion.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

We are not for cutting social welfare and are for more health care.

Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody well.

I have been outspoken on my opposition to 'Obamacare,' and I don't buy the line that our Medicaid program, or any function of government, has reached maximum efficiency.

Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.

Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn't really address that.