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- I joined AARP for three years when they were being attached by the Swift Boat Liars for defending Social Security. I might join again if they take a resonable position on Universal Health Care.
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- Save a tree...Stop sending out that junk mail...I don't want your AARP and I don't want your junk mail....If I wanted AARP I would get it...
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- When people whp worked for the insurance industry come forward and reveal they used to be the ones who made false claims about healthcare reform in the past it's time to actually think and look instead of calling people names as some here have been doing. This is exactly the kind of thing big insurance wants-name calling and harrassment of people who want to find a solution to the healthcare crisis. I am fortunate to have insurance through work but others are not so firtunate and they deserve a chance to get insurance. Medicare has worked fairly well for many years and that is government run healthcare. It's nonsense for people to whine about government involvement in healthcare and carry on about socialism and other nonsense adn outright lies the insurance insustry and right wing conservatives use to try and derail honest dialogue when a programs like Medicare has been going on so long and has been relatively successful. This is nothing more than Big Insurance trying to scuttle reasonable discussion about heathcare and people who believe that are the ones who can't think for themselves.
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- Like the Republi CONS said, you can't negotiate with terrorists. You can't negotiate with greedy, rich, uncaring corporations and their CON tools. They want to continue to ration health care and decide on whether people live and die and who is covered.
The solution is to take the management of health care away from those that profit from it. Universal single payer, like Medicare, is the only sure solution. And it already works. - Reply to this comment
- Really, I would like to know how many of these rude loud mouths have health care and what are they paying for it. Personally speaking I have Medicare now and it is great. I am now paying about $200.00 a month instead of $1250.00 for less coverage. Let me seeee, that's a no brainer. I'm thinking all these "conservatives" are really bigots, fighting a man who is trying to help you because of his skin color. These rude, vile loud mouths are probably bible thumper hipocrites.
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- Healthcare reform has no intention of reducing Medicare benefits but intends to eliminate the fraud and excess costs in the system. AARP is an Insurance Company, one of the biggest in the World.
Some people need to wake up. - Reply to this comment
- It would be interesting to know how many seniors joined AARP because of health care reform issues.
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- I am signing up today!
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According to AARP, they lose 300,000 members a month for one reason or another. Since July 1st they picked up 400,000 members, so once again a NON-STORY. And who cares if you gullible REPUBLICAN'T morons are members of AARP or not? Death Panels..right. How stupid can you MENSAs be to believe this cr*ap? Once again you have proven that there is no underestimating the stupidity of those who believe the REPUBLICAN'Ts- on any issue.
On "Meet the Press" last Sunday Rachel Maddow got Dick Armey (who is responsible for orchestrating much of the disruptive mob behavior at the Town Halls)to admit that he won't be happy until Social Security and Medicare are abolished. Don't any of you GET IT? REPUBLICAN'Ts have fought against every major piece of social legislation since 1932. And the argument is always the same- it's Socialism. It's not. It's about putting the welfare of the American people above corporate interests that care more about their bottom line than YOUR HEALTH. After running up the biggest deficits in U.S. history, we are supposed to believe that REPUBLICAN'Ts are suddenly concerned about fiscal responsibility? They didn't seem as concerned when they were lining Halliburton's pockets and waging an illegal war in Iraq. You people are fools if you don't think this crisis in health care is not going to eventually bite you in the tail.
And you gullible, selfish seniors who are so needlessly worried about losing your benefits under health reform are listening to and BELIEVING the very people who are intent on ABOLISHING those benefits in the future. Where would you be now if Bush had been allowed to privatize Social Security with this economy? WAKE UP PEOPLE! REPUBLICAN'Ts WANT TO TAKE AWAY MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY. The first step will be idiots like you helping them to defeat health care reform.
Our health should not be dependent on an insurance company's profit margin. The only "death panels" that exist are the ones currently run by the insurance companies that determine whether you and I will get the procedures and medications necessary to survive medical emergencies and catastrophic illnesses. "Rationing" of health care is ALREADY TAKING PLACE, administered by those same insurance companies. Those of you who are patting yourselves on the back for the wonderful insurance you currently have can sit there and say "I've got mine- screw the rest of you". Or you can walk the walk and be REAL Christians and look out for your fellow man. Or do it for selfish reasons, because NO ONE is safe under the current system. You will ALL eventually be screwed by it. - Reply to this comment
- I am going to join in AARP.
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