AARP's Healthcare Blues and Its Never Ending Lies

By Carole Wade

The Wall Street Journal's August 21st, 2009 article "AARP Takes Heat Over Health Stand" explains why AARP members are quitting the organization.  Maybe it is because of David Certner's interview on the Bill O'Reilly show on August 11th.
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/21/health-reform-aarp-astroturf-and-the-co-op-public-plan/

Certner comes across again and again as a smug, snarling, smirking liar -- a disgrace to the past professionalism of the AARP's full-time paid staffers.  Replacing its new staffers would be a good beginning to getting AARP back to its roots of representing "older" people.

David Certner's and David Sloane's nonsense about forty million plus Americans who currently lack health insurance coverage needs to be refuted.  Millions of young men choose to engage in "extreme sports" like snowboarding outside the boundaries of ski slopes, skateboarding in traffic and everywhere else, surfing alongside breakwaters where the waves are larger, motorcycling without helmets, and on and on.

Millions upon millions of young women drive giant SUV trucks while texting and screaming on their cell-phones.  They are seen constantly notwithstanding the legal prohibitions here in California and elsewhere too.

Tradespeople in their forties and fifties tell us -- now that President Obama is pushing his health care program so aggressively -- that they have cancelled their employer-provided coverage because the eighty dollar monthly co-insurance or co-pay charges are interfering with their purchases of Global Positioning devices for their pick-up trucks.  They sacrifice their health insurance for GPS instead of reading road maps!

Why should the AARP's current group of health care policy staffers bankrupt its elderly members to cover these many millions of individuals uninsured by their own choice?