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1. #101
   On August 6th, 2009 at 6:43 pm, Salt said:

   On August 6th, 2009 at 6:22 pm, rktkr said:

   So what is AARP fighting for in health reform?

   Stopping insurance companies from charging older Americans unaffordable premiums because of their age.

   Ending the practice of excluding people from insurance because of pre-existing conditions.

   Holding down health costs and making insurance coverage more affordable for all Americans.

   ok…

   see?

   that wasn’t too hard at all.

   now somebody explain to congress how to do THAT without using 1107 pages

   John Stossel has a good editorial on some of these claims and points out that it’s not an honest discussion to make the “excluding the sick” claim for insurance.

   Consider buying car insurance after you’ve been in an accident. That’s not the point of insurance.

   We can debate the rising cost of health care, but to point at insurance companies as the single cause is a fallacy. As John notes, Medicare has a $36 trillion unfunded liability. Yet Obama-care supporters believe doing Medicare even bigger to support more people is sustainable?

   Stossel’s article

2. #102
   On August 6th, 2009 at 7:12 pm, BOB said:

   That made me want to b*tch-slap the so-called AARP spokesperson into at least the middle of next week.

3. #103
   On August 6th, 2009 at 7:55 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

   The left is trying to cram this through before more housing bad news hits after the September resets of the next wave of ARMs reset.

   It is not news that this september and next September are both huge months for ARM resets. Both they both pale in comparison to the coming wave in 2011.

   Just google ARM RESET CHART and look at he coming tidal wave of resets. While the 2010 and 2011 wave could be put off with restructuring the mortgage between now and then.

   The 2009 wave is about to hit next month. Those folks can likely cancel christmas.

4. #104
   On August 6th, 2009 at 9:12 pm, mojoe said:

   Don’t be fooled by these seemingly mild old folks.

   Three women in the back row were knitting swastika mittens and tea cozies!

   I think the “debate” on healthcare has wakened a creaky, arthritic giant and filled it with a terrible resolve.

5. #105
   On August 6th, 2009 at 9:21 pm, lewisge said:

   Already cancelled our membership.

   My theory on this is that AARP gets kickbacks from insurance companies, because they are the source for many policies generated from senior’s medicare supplemental insurance.

   I think both AARP and AHIP are connected at the hip on this and both have been browbeaten by the administration into submission.

   There is no other explanation for the health insurance industry to be cooperating by their silence that will lead to their eventual destruction… unless they are betting that the public option is not going to be successful.

6. #106
   On August 6th, 2009 at 9:23 pm, Ron said:

   The AARP is like any other big “advocacy” organization. As long as seniors keep blindly signing up and paying their membership dues, the leaders of the organization will push their own agendas. I used to be a member, but I didn’t renew this year, and I won’t again. Just like I no longer give to NPR (except through my taxes, where I have no choice.) The AARP leaders are being intentionally blind and ignoring the truth in order to get some changes in health care. When they say you can keep your own doctor if you want and keep your own insurance, that’s true in a limited way. Page 16 of the House bill states, however, that you will be grandfathered into your present care, and you cannot leave it once the law is enacted and then decide to come back to it. So literally, yes, you can keep your insurance, as long as nothing happens. But if something does, you can’t choose another private plan, you have to go with the public option. Download the bill and read it, and you’ll see that the scare stories are mostly true. Apply some common sense. How do you expand coverage when the population of care providers is constant, and not get into rationing? How do you actually reduce costs without affecting quality of care when the number covered is going up? Why do the “experts” that Obama relies on keep talking about bending the curve and limiting services to the young (under puberty) and the middle-aged to elderly (over 55)? Rahm Emmanuel’s brother is one who advocates that, and he has the president’s ear.

7. #107
   On August 6th, 2009 at 9:32 pm, T-Bone said:

   She was mean and nasty from the gitgo. The tape was obviously edited so I don’t know what was going on between but she had a stick up her griddle iron from the onset. The “we are leaving now” thing looked like a Obama/Democrat strategy that was put in place to counter the townhall meetings etc from becoming a forum to criticise the people holding them and let the speakers know what the people think.

   Look for more Democrats leaving the meetings with a “I came here to discuss and they just wanted to shout me down” explanation. That way, they are not wrong, the people are disrespectful. Don’t think the Obama team has not put out a memo to that effect already.

8. #108
   On August 6th, 2009 at 9:42 pm, Photios said:

   I would love to know if AARP has any official comment about this event. I would also be quite surprised as I believe them to be self-interested cowards.

   I passed 50 some years ago and have been receiving their junk mail for some years. I throw it away before even leaving the post office (I use a PO box).

   +Photi

9. #109
   On August 6th, 2009 at 9:44 pm, T-Bone said:

   From Michelles Phoning it in blog post
   

   Over 10 years in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brian Baird has stayed tethered to his district, flying back to Southwest Washington for more than 300 sometimes-bruising town hall meetings during Congressional recesses.

   But this year, he’s literally decided to phone it in.

   Instead of appearing in person, where “extremists” would have “the chance to shout and make YouTube videos,” Baird said Wednesday, he’s holding what he calls “telephone town halls” instead.

   Baird said he’s using the new system because he fears his political opponents may be planning “an ambush” to disrupt his meetings, using methods Baird compared to Nazism.

   “What we’re seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics,” Baird, D-Vancouver, said in a phone interview. “I mean that very seriously.”

   There, it is already happening and they act like it’s not a grand scheme to do this. No I just came up with it all by myself. BS, it is a coordinated strategic response.

10. #110
    On August 6th, 2009 at 9:48 pm, beeman said:

    I gave up on AARP when they put Katie Couric’s picture on the cover of its magazine. Ever since I stuff their business envelopes with trash mail and send them in. It makes me feel better and helps the Postal Service.
    God bless you Michelle. Stay well, it’s going to be a long hard battle.

11. #111
    On August 7th, 2009 at 10:07 am, Weary Citizen said:

    Geez, that lady has liberal bent written all over her. In any company I have ever worked, an attitude like that toward your CUSTOMERS would have you out he door by the end of the day with an apology issued as well. Like all organizations, their original and noble cause of ensuring their constituency is heard has now moved into the existing for the sake of existing stage. Everything the org does now is to ensure the relevancy and survival of that orgnization. Even at the expense of the group they speak for. See NAACP, SPLC, MADD, ACLU, etc. They must continually search for new issues to reamin relevant. Even if is is a nonexistant issue. MADD won’t stop until all acohol is banned in the US. Then they will find anohter issue. The NAACP will not stop until no white person is left to blame for their ills. And on and on.

12. #112
    On August 7th, 2009 at 10:40 am, Laree said:

    I added video from last night’s Hannity Exclusive Imus Ranch Special.

13. #113
    On August 7th, 2009 at 6:01 pm, infidel4life said:

    Here’s what the 60 Plus Association has to say about the AARP:

    http://www.60plus.org/about-aarp.asp