AARP to Employees: Your Insurance Costs are Going Up Thanks to the Great Affordable Health Care Plan We Promoted
**Written by Doug Powers
Nancy Pelosi said it: “We need to pass health care reform so we can find out what’s in it.” Some people were actually excited by that prospect, like contestants on Let’s Make a Deal being asked to trade the pittance in their hand for the promise of what’s behind door #1:
AARP, either in blind faith or full complicity, bet on door #1 and their employees (not to mention almost everybody else) get to pay the price:
WASHINGTON – AARP’s endorsement helped secure passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Now the seniors’ lobby is telling its employees their insurance costs will rise partly as a result of the law.
In an e-mail to employees, AARP says health care premiums will increase by 8 percent to 13 percent next year because of rapidly rising medical costs.
And AARP adds that it’s changing copayments and deductibles to avoid a 40 percent tax on high-cost health plans that takes effect in 2018 under the law. Aerospace giant Boeing also has cited the tax in asking its workers to pay more. Shifting costs to employees lowers the value of a health care plan and acts like an escape hatch from the tax.
Prepare for AARP to now lobby the Obama administration for a waiver from the glorious health care law they helped shove down America’s throat.
Here’s a related flashback. In August of last year an AARP representative was in Dallas trying to convince dues-paying members why they should support the Democrats’ health care plan. It didn’t go well, and the skeptics were correct:
The woman conducting the seminar will now be paying more for health insurance, so there’s a bit of schadenfreude here — self-inflicted in her case.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Irony
Gullibility, thy name is Amerikan publik.
AARP employees need to prepare for their bosses to tell them that this was all part of the plan. Of course they didn’t know that until it was passed, but the spin will be that “we’re going to have to pay a little more but it will be to help everybody else out there.”
In the mean time, everybody else out there is paying more, too. So, who exactly was this supposed to help? Obama? Congress? Big Labor? All of the above? Clearly not us.
Geniuses! Thanks AARP. And yet millions of lemmings continue to patronize that corrupted organization.
As Gomer would say:
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
It still makes me wonder how AARP is still around with all they do to screw the people they supposedly represent.
Heck, I’m seeing the same thing at my job. Not only are my premiums going up for my insurance, I will have to fill out documentation proving that my wife is actually married to me.
Thanks, Democrats! Thanks, Obamacare!
And yet those millions also continue to vote for the politicians who shoved this healthcare on us.
I hope millions of aarp members shread their cards and send them back to aarp! I wouldn’t join that group on a bet, they suck big time!
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Now that is ironic, you will have to prove you are married to your wife, but God forbid we have to show ID to vote….
I’m glad we dropped AARP right after they expressed their support for obamacare.
Well I certain hope they’re not upset about their premiums rising. If they are then they’re heartless people (pre-existing conditions) who hate children (up to age 26).
Where is their patriotism?
I smelled a rat with them from the first day they put out their shingle.
I understand that there is an alternative organization to AARP that’s conservative.
I turned 50 this year and would rather join that then send money to a left-wing PAC.
Let’s all do it!
Fancy that. The truth is that there was never a comprehensive problem identification analysis done with healthcare. How can you fix problems if you don’t even know what they are? It follows that this legislation was never about lowering healthcare costs and issues of access, but rather government control over an essential industry. The law was in the can decades ago and on the Dem pantry shelf ready to trot out when they assumed total control of the government. That is why we never had a debate. There was nothing to debate, it was a done deal.
I think this is it:
http://www.amac.us
It’s calle AMAC – Assoc.of Mature American Citizens. Do join.
Beat me to it. All mature conservatives should join.
Maybe I should have married an illegal alien and go after my HR Department for being racist.
One of my co-workers is going to see if she can ask for a refund of her health insurance if her daughter isn’t really her dependent.
AARP was in the bag for Obama from the outset, and its only fair their employees get stuck in the pocketbook the same as the rest of us. We need to repeal this as fast as we can.
This isn’t news to me; I already saw my contribution to my health plan go up in October, my employer’s renewal date. They said it was mainly because of the 26-year-old-papoose provision.
They should adopt Wile E. Coyote as their spokesman. After all he is a genius.
I automatically tear up and throw away all the AARP junk mail I receive.
And I do wonder, exactly how did they find out I’m now old enough to join their gilded guild?
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Anyone with half a brain could have seen this coming 3 years ago. And we did.
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Only a fool or crook could “believe” in the “lower cost” B.S. Economics 101 always trumps Hope and Change.
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Like I told the Army re-up sergeant when he wanted me to re-enlist for 4 more years at $163 a month long ago. After 2 years starting out as a $78 per month Private draftee. “Hey, Sarge–if I sign this paper it would prove that I’m too stupid to help out here! Why would I do so? I made $400 a month washing dishes before I got my engineering degree.”
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His answer, “Re-up for the benefits!” Enjoy your next few years, AARP fools.
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John Bibb
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http://www.60plus.org/
is an alternative , others are out there .
But, but….I thought health care was free.
It’s an entitlement, you know……
Only if our politicians from our local councilman to the president MUST be in the people’s pension plan (social security) and the nations health plan (medicare) and we all are taxed at the same rate with NO exemptions. No one doesn’t have to pay 10% of their income, churches, 527 corps, farmers, bankers, politicians, streetwalkers, and everyone pays 10%.
I fully expect Kathleen Sebelius to call in these greedy AARP managers and force them to stop these unfounded rumors that ObamaCare is causing costs to rise. Any minute now..real soon..waiting.
When AARP sent my wife a solicitation she sent it back as “unsolicited pornographic material”. She will decide when she is old. Don’t mess with momma.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
AARP has been duping seniors for far too long. Now they get to skewer their own employees. No sympathy here. I will celebrate when when AARP goes bankrupt.
AARP = Senior’s Union.
Why, the 30 million new freeloaders, who are now covered, of course.
I believe that is called schadenfreudecide.
I think I would pull that Andy Griffith ad. He now looks like a nasty old bugger rather than that lovable sheriff in Mayberry.
His reputation just went south big time. Of course, he was a major leftist but managed to hide it from the public up until now
If you think health care is expensive now wait until it is free.
This is wrong. Employers shouldn’t be able to pass on the increased cost of health insurance to the poor employees. We need to pass a law forbiding employers to pass on the costs of health care increases to their employees. Also a law that prohibits any companies passing on tax hikes to their employees. The evil corporation has to pay for that.
Go out of business you say. Lets pass a law that no corporation can go out of business either and that everyone must buy from American companies and we will blah blah blah blah blah and we need to put politics aside and do whats right for the people (unless my party is in charge) and yada yada yada….
Once you read whats in it, you will like it.
We heard from our in-laws that their supplemental Medicare insurance through AARP’s United Healthcare will no longer be accepted by any of their doctors or hospitals in the Atlanta area except for Emory Hospital. Hmmm….
When I get a mailing from AARP I write a little comment about how I disagree with their partisan shilling for the Dumbocrats. I then carefully fold all the papers and send them back in their postage paid envelope.
The amount of junk mail AARP sends me is stunning. Thank God most of it comes with a prepaid return envelope so I can send it back……including the envelope it came in. Thanks AARP.
Let’s hope it becomes the norm, TigerLady. LOL
Health Care is a right granted to you by the government…..BHO.
Hope they don’t start charging for the right to freedom, speech, religion etc.