Charleston, West Virginia
United States
''The challenge to live up to our better selves, to believe well of our fellow men and perhaps by doing so to help Create The Good, to experiment, to explore, to change and to grow.''
Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus
Questions?AARP Comments on Health Care Reform on NPR, Politico
In a Nov. 3 Politico opinion piece titled “Don't Price Older People out of Care,” Executive Vice President, Social Impact Nancy LeaMond writes, "The debate over how to fix what's wrong with our health care system has been interrupted by political gamesmanship as opponents and special interests attempt to stall or stop reform. As the largest association representing Americans age 50-plus, AARP has again found itself targeted by opponents of reform who are trying, through misdirection and sleight of hand, to influence the debate." But, "this comes as no surprise to AARP," Nancy says, because the group has encountered such opposition before. She explains that AARP is working to ensure that health reform improves Medicare, deals "with the high cost of prescription drugs by closing the Medicare Part D 'doughnut hole,'" and ensures that "health insurance coverage [is] available and affordable for older Americans." Therefore, eliminating age discrimination by insurers is crucial.
AARPs leadership is a bunch of traitors, cowards and thieves. You have sold out your members and now Obama can tell all Americans he has the support of seniors. At the very least AARP should not endorse anything political but AARP has endorsed the worst bill ever written. What promises did the White House give you? What was the price did the White house pay. AARP like the AMA has become a political activist group that supports liberal and radical change that not only does not benefit seniors, it hurts them
How dare the leadership of this AARP endorse a bill that will cut $500BILLION from Medicare, deprive its own menbers of some aspects of health care, penalize private insurers and health care providers, and bankrupt the next 5 generations. What the hell are you people thinking? perhaps it was a threat from the administration, or perhaps it was a payoff. Did the leadership bother polling its members? or did it jukst decide to tell us what we want. to make this bill even more dangerous, embedded within it, are pieces which will grant the federal government control over many aspects of our lives. there is very little difference between this administration, and the National Socialists of the previous century...simply that all people who would uphold the Constitution have become the common enemy. Not that it matters much to the AARP, but i will not renew my membership.
