Posted by
Carole Wade on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:14:14 AM
The Unfortunate Healthcare Lone-Vote by Senator Olympia Snowe: AARP's Older Members will be Tragically Harmed. AARP's Staff Members and Lobbyists are Progressive Liberal = Backward Thinking.
By Carole Wade
Today's long-time members of AARP have been placed closer to losing their healthcare benefits by Senator Snowe's Senate Vote. Although The Wall Street Journal has cited in article after article about AARP members quitting the organization, AARP continues to enthusiastically back the Obama White House Healthcare convoluted plan.
AARP's Washington lobbyists are selling out their rural members while rewarding their city urban members. In other words, Obama/AARP soul-mates don't care about the millions and millions and millions of older Americans who reside throughout rural areas in every state.
David Certner's (August 11th, 2009) interview on FOXNEWS' Bill O'Reilly Show came across as a smug, snarling, smirking liar -- a disgrace to the past professionalism of the AARP's full-time paid staffers. In fact, laid off executives -- with families to support -- should apply for Mr. Certner's position.
Mr. Certner's nonsense about "forty million plus" Americans who currently lack health insurance coverage must be refuted:
(1) 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.
(2) Millions upon millions of young women drive giant SUV trucks while texing and screaming on their cell-phones. They are seen constantly -- notwithstanding the legal prohibitions in many states. These young women cause accidents daily -- harming themselves and innocent people who get in their way!
(3) Many trades people in their forties and fifties -- now that President Obama is pushing his health care program so aggressively -- 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 AARP's health care policy staffers bankrupt their elderly members to cover millions of individuals uninsured by their own choice?