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| Seniors Duped by Obamacare and AARP |
| 2012-09-28 |
| Or, Romney's in Trouble, Part 156 Voters in three critical swing states broadly oppose the far-reaching changes to Medicare Âassociated with the Republican presidential ticket and, by big margins, prefer President Obama to handle the issue, according to new state polls by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. One of those good liberal foundations that provide employment for otherwise worthless third-generation descendants of rich people... For seniors in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, Medicare rivals the economy as a top voting issue. And by majorities topping 70 percent, seniors say they prefer to keep Medicare as a program with guaranteed benefits, rather than moving to a system in which the government gives recipients fixed payments to buy coverage from private insurers or traditional Medicare, as Romney advocates. No one asked what they thought about Obama's actual law passed, which reforms medicare? Romney has revived a Republican line of attack from the midterm elections that year, charging that Obama "raided" Medicare "to pay for Obamacare." The criticism refers to $716 billion in cuts to Medicare in the health-care law -- cuts that Ryan previously supported but has since said he would undo. Again, a question of words versus already-done deeds, except the Obumble deeds are of no consequence to the pollsters. The law, which the Supreme Court largely Some honesty, finally, nine paragraphs into the story. Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said the poll findings were "irrelevant" because the question on the type of Medicare overhaul that Romney advocates did not accurately describe the plan. In an e-mail, she said that respondents were not told that Romney has promised not to change Medicare for Americans older than 55. Who do you think is going to tell them, Andrea? AARP? Besides which, Romney is not a demi-god, making laws by fiat. He will have to get Congress to approve changes. Obama hammers the Ryan plan continually, telling supporters at a campaign event in Milwaukee last Saturday that Romney and Ryan would "turn Medicare into a voucher program in order to pay for tax cuts for the very wealthy." A baldfaced lie which the media is content to leave unexamined. Yes, R&R and the radical Pubs will starve the middle class and make the wealthy even richer, all by using their Jedi powers to sucker the 535 members of Congress. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #7 Become a Vegan, do yoga stretches; and "Thrive"..." while your co-pays go through the roof. What a bunch of sanctimonious, junk-health and Mumbo-Jumbo spouting, progressive AARP lifers.. |
| Posted by: canalzone 2012-09-28 23:29 |
| #6 Kaiser Foundation is the propaganda arm of Kaiser Permanente -- the giant HMO -- that's not subjected to the same $8 billion Obamacare tax as other health plans. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2012-09-28 16:13 |
| #5 I'm gonna have to steal that Bobby. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-09-28 11:35 |
| #4 I belonged to AARP for a while - I was bombarded with invites when I hit 50. Then I discovered AARP meant Amazing Assembly of Retarded Progressives and dropped out. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2012-09-28 10:12 |
| #3 Forgot to point out that AARP runs a insurance gig that benefits from Obamacare legislation. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-09-28 09:24 |
| #2 People amaze me - the current trajectory makes medicare bankrupt anyhow in a couple decades. Does are electorate not possess an ounce of rational thought or logic? Sorry, I know - that's a rhetorical question. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2012-09-28 08:59 |
| #1 Well if you can't believe The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and AARP, who can you believe? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-09-28 08:01 |