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Another group involved in American politics is yet again selling its soul to the devil, selling out its constituency, and ensuring that its numbers will drop. Sounds like more of the status quo that Obama promised to do away. All this to reduce coverage to seniors, drive up the deficit despite what Nancy "The Shrill" Pelosi and the Bamster say.

People, will you please think for a minute.

If you are so against the government "controlling healthcare" why are you not against the government contolling the millitary?

If you are worried about the government spending too much why don't you also want the defense budget to be decreased?

If you seriously think the government is going to make "death panels" because the elderly "cost to much to keep alive" why do you not also think the private market would not do the same? (and more eviciently)

If you are against "socialsim" do you feel we should privatize our roads, police stations, fire stations, and military? They function under socialsim principals.

If you don't like "spreading the wealth" does that mean you have no insurance of any kind? Because insurance, all insurance, functions by the spreading of wealth from those that have no or little claims to those that do have claims. If my premiums are $10,000 a year and I have no claims I don't get that money back. It's been spread to those that have made claims.

Michele Bachmann, the Wicked Witch of the Mid-West, is at it again - more idiocy and more whining, but no answers.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,, LOL,
SOOOO the well financed neocon LOST. Daaaaaayum. Palin, Pawlenty, and numerous other big name cons couldn't pull Hoffman thru. That must mean Obama is successful.
YES WE CAN. OBAMA-BIDEN 2012

Thank you, AARP! Finally, change we can all live with and hope for many! Now, hopefully, the AMA will announce the same at noon today! Say YES to adequate health care for all Americans!

Naturally the AARP loves it. Their main income is from selling bad health insurance to their members. Either Medicare for All or nothing!

The American Association of Retired Persons' (AARP) possible imprimatur comes as Speaker Nancy Pelosi oversees final changes to the $1.055 trillion health care bill, which is likely set to come to a final vote Saturday.
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Tax and spend, tax and spend, spend and tax, spend and tax....
We as a Nation are broke, if this passes it will be the death nail in Free America's coffin. Reverse Logic? 45,000 people die each year in America because they have Medicaid and Medicare health insurance provided for by an inept Government Bureaucracy. Insurance company profits are approximately 2 billion/yr, Medicaid and Medicare fraud losses are approximately 30 billion/yr, Figure it out Obamabots!

I am a Senior and I FULLY support the health care bill put forth by the democrats.

As long as they get some form of a public option I'm happy, along with what about 61% of the country? You know, the ones who vote with their own best interests in mind.

You have already misstated facts in the first few lines of your article. The AARP is not a non-partisan advocacy group. While they do not officially endorse the Democrat Party, they consistently endorse the positions of the Democrat Party. Also claiming to be non-profit is also not entirely true since the AARP was created by an insurance company in order to steer the elderly into buying their insurance products. In reality, the AARP is little more than a liberal political monstrosity, which snookers the elderly into supporting liberal political positions, while at the same time, using their membership as a marketplace for the products they choose to market to them.

What was AARP's pay off for their support since they have lost lots of members over this issue already? Getting rid of Medicare Advantage makes their more expensive and less coverage insurance more sellable.

If this monstrosity passes both houses of Congress and it ends up costing more than the recent estimate of 1.3 trillion dollars everyone of you who pushed for this should be the first ones to get their taxes raised to pay for it. History proves that everyone of these big government entitlements cost more than the estimates form Congress so our deficit gets even bigger. Look closely at the bill and get your insurance before 2013 or you will be on the government option. Also Congress cannot be made to go on the public option so that tells you it is not a good thing because if it was they would be on it. My Congressman has already said the taxpayers cannot afford the current bill and will vote no and I am glad. If my son who made $18,000 last year cna pay $250 a month for insurance on he and his son, then everyone else in his situation can make the sacrafice and get health insurance.

This is precisely why I am not an AARP member. I learned long ago that this group does not truely represent their members. In this case they are focused on what this bill will do to increase their insurance sales. This health care bill will be about as effective as the stimulus bill only far more damaging. Why are the dems so hell bent on passing something so ridiculous? This disaster will kill jobs, add to the deficit, not cover many uninsured, and destroy the quality of health care as we know it. Dems can kiss my vote goodbye.

WHY would AARP back this health reform bill for seniors??????
How does it benefit the seniors on Medicare. It will limit treatment
for this senior population.

AARP's membership is going to plummet.

This is not the way to healthcare reform.

Goodbye AARP.

They better otherwise the Obama regime will spank them just like the Chamber of Comerce.

Bow down or else!!!

I love collaboration. Don't you?

Also, if we wait long enough to vote then no one will be opposed to it. Americans traditionally have a short attention span and don't have the energy for a long political fight.

If I was a member of the AARP (AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RED-TAPE PROPONENTS) I would be ending my membership today. Under the demorats' proposal, seniors will suffer more than anyone else. When medicare is scaled up to include everyone (which is basically what this proposal mandates) there are going to be alot less resources for our seniors......those who probably need and deserve them the most. Too bad most of them are not mentally sharp enough to realize this simple and predictable fact. I'm not sure whose interest the AARP is really looking out for, but it's not our seniors. WAKE UP GRANDMA! WAKE UP GRANDPA!

Look for the AARP membership to drop significantly over this. Nancy Botoxi is already admitting it will go over 1 trillion dollars...............so look for it to be even higher than that. We all know government estimates aren't worth the paper they are printed on...........kind of like our money.

Another reason to not join or cancel my AARP membership. They are supposed to be looking out for seniors.

Smart. I really think health reform will pass and will eventually be a huge success in this country. Those who supported it during this difficult time will be proven right in the long run.

Why doesn't any article regarding AARP and the Health Care Bill include the information that AARP is the largest provider of GAP insurance for seniors. With the "gap" between what Medicare covers and what it doesnt getting bigger due to the cutbacks, AARP stands to make billions of dollars with increased demand for GAP insurance. There is a money motive here .. don't let the "non profit" smoke and mirrors deceive you. Its always about the money or the power and often about both ... follow the money and you find AARP.

KEYWORD: Advocacy group

The AARP is nothing but another lobby. It doesn't represent the best interests of the elderly everywhere, only the best interests of its members and its bureaucrats.

Sure, this is the plan. Take families that make $1M, which gets you an average place in Manhattan or San Francisco, and steal another $50,000 from them annually. Good idea.

If you endorse the government healthcare bill, you will loose me and several other members. The government ruins everything they touch, and we already have enough problems with the healthcare system, we don't need any more.

Precisely the reason I dropped my membership of this ultra-liberal group. I encourage others to do the same. This group has never been a true friend of us retirees. $500 billion in medicare cuts will...and MUST....lead to the so-called "death panels". There is simply no other logical result.

I am an AARP member, and am glad to see the organization supporting REAL health care reform, and not the joke that the party of NO (GOP = Greed Over Principle) is claiming is health reform, when all it is (is) welfare for the health insurance companies (21st century robber barons).

The AARP sold everyon e out with the Bush Administration when they endorsed the pharmaceutical plans for seniors. There is no reason to believe they are doing ANYTHING for the good of the people now. This health care bill–if that is what one wants to call it– is a sham and will bankrupt all of us! The democrats in Congress who so eagerly seek socialization should be removed from office–they have nothing to offer and cannot even identify the real problem of health care.