JIMR45 Well said, Jim...however, the health care business, of which AARP is a profit generating member, is too tempting for AARP to just sit idly by and act in the best interest of their membership.  Making big profits from member rolls, on the insurance programs that AARP sells (through United Healthcare) is more important to them.  They are clearly engaged in a conflict of interest relationship at the expense of the membership they profess to advocate.  The support of  the Obamacare provision that siphons off $500 billion of Medicare funds, to fund a new sink hole health care measure, is unconscionable.
Posted by jvcleve2

AARP should not be supporting Obama Care. The responsibility of AARP is to support its membership. 1. Obama Care plans on taking billions away from medicare acting like a thief in the night, stealing from Medicare to support another program not supportive of medicare recipients. 2. Obama Care will lead the US to bankruptcy since it is not a program adequately funded. 3. Obama Care will reduce the benefits of Medicare programs. 4. Obama Care supports programs that many of us do not support, such as abortion. 5. Obama Care is already making assaults on the beliefs of Religions in trying to make them provide coverage which goes against their teachings. 6. It has been claimed in the policies that will come forward people will have to contribute to abortions if they want certain coverage. This becomes a moral attack against many. 7. It has been claimed that AARP supports Obama Care because it gains money in the insurance programs it provides. This is not for the betterment of your membership but only for the profit taking of AARP. 8. Obama Care dictates to individuals what they must do which goes against Americas principles of individual rights. It is already being challenged and is before the Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of this act. 9. You have started a program saying where we can speak out on Medicare and Social Security, but in this case you have gone forth supporting an act without providing the same concern about this act. 10. The economy is bad so it is not a time to come forward with an act which will need to demand more from those that our working, as many companies are looking at bailing out of healthcare because of this act. 11. We have frightening national debt, yet this act will make the debt worse since it dose not have the money to support it. 12. Medical costs need to be controlled before the government jumps into a situation where the costs have gone wild. 13. Many of us on medicare will lose when this law takes complete control. 14. Medicare selections will likely be diminished and many of us will lose options we have selected. AARP consider your membership and do not support this act which is not supporting us who have paid into social security and medicare for so many years and are now receiving or will soon receive its benefits. Medicare and Social Security may be called entitlements but unlike some others they are entitlements which we have earned. You are contributing to a situation where we could lose both. As of right now Social Security is the largest holder of the national debt. With Obama Care we should expect both Medicare and Social Security to become bankrupt. AARP stop supporting this act before we start dropping our memberships since you no longer our looking into our best interests but rather goes against moral and American principles.
Posted by JimR45

In Response to AARP stop supporting Obama Care : ABOVE  INFO is MOSTLY  DECEITFUL  Medicare has a long history as a tool for health care reform fear tactics. The bills under consideration in Congress would reduce Medicare expenses by about $50 billion a year over the next 10 years to help slow the spending and spare Medicare from bankruptcy. The reductions would come not in their benefits, but by reducing waste, fraud and abuse and changing the way Medicare pays hospitals and doctors. The deduction threshold for seniors out of pocket medical costs will remain at the 7.5 % figure. , The insurance company does not give a rats be-hind if you live or die.. they only want secure profits. Think of the money you could save.......or get better treatments if we don't have to give the insurance companies ONE THIRD of the premiums paid them to keep for themselves.
Posted by JANMB