AARP backs House's health-care bill

Surprise! surprise, everyone knows that AARP is in the tank for Nobama. I hope all the seniors that have quit being members remain so, and the others members who have not sent their cards back wise up and do so,asap. AARP is looking for a least a 400 million dollar windfall by supporting this outrageous healthcare bill. Listen up this is going to cost everyone millions of tax dollars, no one is going to be exempt. Don't be hoodwinked send in you AARP cards and cancel your membership.

Further to my first post, They the NObama administration has promised H1N1 vaccine for all Americans that need it, well their short by a couple of hundred million doses. And these same people are going to run our healthcare? Be careful what you ask for, act in haste and relax in leisure!.

Hey Paul, your a partisan hack. Our taxes wont go up that much (<5%) for your or your employer. And those vaccines you worry about... You pee them out because your body does not break down a vaccine. As a consequence, it mutates in the water system making the vaccine useless. Paying a little more in your taxes to help people is good for our country.

Good for AARP - It's about time!

And Paul, I'll type slow so you get this - a public option is only an option - which means that you can still choose BCBS, MetLife, et al - you don't need to use the public option.

But something must be done to provide health care for all, because health care is not a privilege, it's a right.

I am shocked -not. The AARP in the messiah's camp?

I agree with Paul's posts. My friend just went and got the H1N1 shot today. They told her at the county health clinic that there is a shortage of the regular flu shot now because all the resources went into making the H1N1. Good health care under Obama? Don't plan on it if this is how our government operates.

Why does this not destroy their non profit status?

If people like Paul didn't resort to spreading misinformation I might be willing to listen to their point of view. The fact is that the healthcare bill does not, in any way, amount to the government "running our healthcare." It offers a public **option** which is a very different thing.

The reason that the distribution of the H1N1 has been delayed is that it took longer to grow the vaccine cultures than the manufacturers expected. The administration had nothing to do with that.

If we're going to have a genuine discussion of this legislation the we need to quit with the fear-mongering and stick to the facts.

Now hear this. AAPR SUCKS
THEY ARE BOUGHT OFF
THEY ARE NOT FOR THE SENIOR. THIS BILL, WILL
CU.........T THE MEDICARE
COVERAGE. BYE BYE
BENEFITS

I canceled my AARP membership today. The discounts won't pay for the increased tax costs that I'll be paying to cover slackers and illegals.

"Pauls' Cousin" Really? Paying more taxes is good? Well, you can may my share than.

As for health care, remember this one? http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/What-a-difference-five-years-makes-on-flu-vaccine-shortage--66176452.html

"Hardly a negative word has been uttered in the mainstream media this week about President Obama and the shortage of swine flu vaccine shots, despite assurances from his administration in September that an "ample supply" would be available by "mid-October."
But five years ago when it was George W. Bush in the White House and sufficient supplies of flu vaccine were not available in a timely manner, folks in the media were jumping all over the administration. "

And from the Democratic Underground website from 2004 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1087133

Well, I just cancelled my membership to AARP, like thousands more to come. The Democratic Socialist Party of the US is counting on millions of people to refuse helathcare insurance so their fines will help pay for it. Otherwise it will cost over one and a quarter trillion dollars and raise your taxes by 15%

AARP is essentially an insurance company so you know the democrats gave them some kickbacks for this endorsement.
I worry that people like Paul's cousin will procreate so I don't want ANY of my tax dollars going to help them.

Pauls Cousin, T.M., Greg Witt: You don't really understand what's proposed. AARP is selling out. The House proposal CUTS Medicare reimbursements, WILL REDUCE what's covered, and will COST $1 TRILLION. Your jobs, if you work for a small employer, will go away. Or they won't hire anyone but work you to death to make up for the taxes Obamacare will impose. Your insurance WILL COST MORE.
Pay attention. We ALL LOSE under this plan!

That 40 million member thing requires some context. Many AARP members, like myself, pay ten bucks and get a card that provides some discounts. Just as my motor club doesn't represent my political views, neither does the AARP. The is a huge overreach...the discounts certainly don't justify this nonsense.

Um..... people the government dose not have a lot of control on the supply of Flu shot H1 or Regular. The companies that make it do. It takes a while to produce vaccine by the egg method that most manufactures use. Republican nut jobs like you are always trying to stick it to Obama whether it is deserving or not. Obama has tackled more issues in his first year then bush did in eight years. All Politicians are crap but some are a little less stinky. Have a cookie and chill out you will get your flu shot!

BV, I didn't agree with Paul's Cousin. I do not want Obamacare. I was agreeing with Paul. I will never join the AARP- they have been in the tank for Obamacare because they stand to make millions from it. They are a joke, pretending to help senior citizens. Obama's plan will put the screws to anyone on Medicare Advantage.

It's a sad day when the very organization that proports to support the needs of Seniors, instead sells them out for their own political gain.
My membership was cancelled weeks ago, everyone should do the same

I saw this one coming a long time ago, which is why I recently cut my AARP membership card up, dropped it in an envelope with a Cancel My Membership letter, and sent both right back to AARP. I would urge anyone else who is still a member to do the same.

The misinformation campaign against Healthcare reform is laughable. Do this dimwits thing that by speading lies on the internet that people will suddenly believe them. All teabagging partisan hacks do are tell lies. Just gives facts, not scare tactics and then maybe I could believe any of these right-wing talking points/lies.

Oh no, Obama and his "people" got to the AARP too! Do you think they're using some type of space age mind control methods developed by extraterrestrials?

What's next, the NRA? Lord help us all!

No big suprise

http://bit.ly/39oJo

My AARP membership is cancelled - stick a fork in them too!!!

Mmm, mmm, mmm,
Campaign promises broken,

mmm, mmm, mmm,
SS Obama is sinking,

mmm, mmm, mmm,
Abandon ship!

I'm not a "partisan hack". Just a small business owner with 8 employees. My premiums stand to go up over 100% according to BCBS and its unclear if I'll be able to keep our HSA. There is no doubt that once the payroll taxes and fees kick in, someone will be losing their job. I will most likely have to drop private coverage for the rest. Its not like the revenue is pouring in these days. Its simple math, really. But, on a macro level, you can see where the "partisan hacks" and "right wingnuts" might easily conclude that the public option is not really a "choice" after all.

Greg Witt(less),

The "Option" will almost certainly squeeze the private carriers out.....by design, you naive Useful Idiot!!

Do you really think Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the other Socialists have as their primary goal cverage for the 10% who don't have it (many by choice)?

I wish you people could hear yourselves. I'd happily have a few dollars more taken out of my paycheck so that my 20 and 30-something year old friends could get some sort of health care. I'm really, really glad that everybody spreading misinformation about the "horrors" of a public option is either old enough to be in an established non-contract position (or simply in a wealthy family), but we're college graduates in our first, entry-level jobs. And most of us are busting our behinds to get and keep the few jobs in our fields available. These days, since the economic meltdown, a young professional can't just pick and choose until he or she a job that offers a full benefits package. Even in the safest fields like business and computer science, most jobs are contract or contract-to-hire, and thus carry no health benefits. This means that we purposefully have to avoid going to the doctor or dentist, even when we're sick or injured (and by the way, we're the most vulnerable age bracket to H1N1, too!). So, we're a legitimate voter base of university and trade-school educated people, who have very few choices but the public option to get affordable health care at all.

I'm sure the answer to this will be something like "Don't get sick!" or "Buy Blue Cross!" (Check the prices and co-pays on their individual plans - they are laughably astronomical for a new grad).

I also am cancelling my AARP subscription. The public option will in fact mean that in the very near future the government will drive private insurance out of business because they can't compete. So those who posted that we can still pick who we want are simply wrong. This bill is a disaster and the endorsement by AARP is a joke.

AARP is a privately owned, insurance company front---period.

They do not have the best interests of retired people in mind, nor is the organization run by and for them...privately owned, insurance company front---period.

Can you imagine the lobbying going on from and for them? Good grief dont get too worried about them, just cancel your membership and find retirement resources and help from local sources that care.

AARP doesnt.

The AARP is the equivalent of a union for old people. AARP management will continue to grow fat and sassy off of the membership fees that the old folks will misguidedly pay, but not deliver anything of value.

The main difference is that the AARP management is not elected by the membership and yet they will tell the old fogies what they are to think.

I canceled my membership on their last endorsement. I wish I had another membership to cancel since they didn't get the message when they lost 10s of thousand of members when they endorsed but didn't really endorse Obama before. They think that they are going to get more revenue by backing Obama/Reid/ Pelosi than the members they will lose. Have they looked at which direction the polls are going for Obama/Reid/Pelosi and the health care plan? Americans do not want this! And Americans sure don't like money being borrowed and wasted at a rate of $Trillions a year. Obviously AARP now is more concerned with selling out seniors and those that hope to be seniors someday than doing what is right and what their membership.

I'm dropping my membership.

I e-mailed DearJennie@aarp.org and cancelled ny membership today.

If I had wanted to belong to a Democratic affiliated group I would of done it myself!

OK, I am so sick of blogging on the area newspaper - Seattle Times. Definitely one of the strangest parts of the country.
Glad to see that my hometown has some common sense.... minimizing the self serving AARP announcement.

AARP doesn't represent seniors any more than AMA represent doctors...

Public option is economic suicide...
CBO numbers were manipulated by directions given to CBO by BHO.

please stick my membership where the sun don t shine, you people are EASY, the only thing I v gotten from your membership is a 10% discount at a hotel which I could have gotten by just asking.

Gee, does the AARP even matter or does it even reflect the needs of its members? NOT.

You people who agree with this are absurd. HC is not a right, a right in whose world?

HC reform is fine, just refine each and every piece of HC, INCLUDING Tort reform, and to get more competition, open the states borders so anyone can purchase from everyone.

Enact one piece of reform every 6 months. If one doesnt fix it, do the next, then the next. 25-50 pages per bill, not a confusing 1990 pages no one can read or understand.

It is that large just to confuse everyone, and to throw in more and more PORK.

Havent you noticed? Every bill signed in the last couople months has hidden stuff in it, just like the bill NOBAMA is going to sign tomorrow, extending unemployment.

Government cant run medicare, medicaid, social security, now they want to run HC which is bigger, while also enacting Cap and Tax, which makes U.S. citizens pay more taxes, so smaller countries receive more subsidies.

Then NOBAMA will sign a treaty, that has language in it that creates a one world government. Signs away all our rights, while not doing ANYTHING for American citizens.

Promises, promises, like I wont raise taxes, unemployment to stay under 8%, there will be transparency.

What has he done? THE OPPOSITE.

Pretty much why the elections went they way they did Tuesday. HAHAHAHAHA

Get Real America, wake up. OBAMA is a radical, extremist, socialist.

Do you want to live in France or Canada? If so, pack up.

Never mind, you can stay here.

Want to read a True American letter?

belowcost.net/vet/readthis.html

Those of you who believe the health care plan will actually help you or your friends and family are sadly mistaken. The government has totally bombed on Social Security. We've all been told not to count on receiving anything from it when we retire -- and yet we're still pouring significant chunks of our paychecks into it -- and trying to find additional money to set aside on a personal basis so we have something to take care of our basic needs when we can't work any longer. The Government public health plan will be a vast bureacracy that will be mismanaged and corrupted just like social security -- and we'll be forced to pay for it just like we are forced to pay for social security. Have you ever tried to call in to the government run offices of Medicare for guidance on that huge program? Few people who answer those phones understand that program -- it's a nightmare!!! Fix the health insurance problems privately but don't let the government manage it. I say they should fix social security before they try to take on anything else. Anyone else agree?

"I canceled my AARP membership today. The discounts won't pay for the increased tax costs that I'll be paying to cover slackers and illegals.
Posted by: Chicago Al | November 5, 2009 3:07 PM

You are covering them now via 'cost shifting'. We all are.
Under the Dem plan it should cost you less as the cost shifting will be spread among a larger insurance pool.

How sad that AARP would endose this bill without a poll from its members. I for one am totally against this bill. AMA only represents a small percentage of the medical staff in this country. You may your membership just as limited if you ignore the wishes of your members.

Do you want a true Retired Membership that will help you and not sell out to this Health Care debacle? Go to https://secure.americanseniors.org/ and check out what they have to offer. AARP is going to lose alot of members if this Obama Care is implemented.