Posted by
E Frank on Friday, November 06, 2009 9:00:00 PM
I gave AARP the benefit of the doubt when they said they had not endorsed any health care bill even though they had agreed with the Pres on nearly every part of his health care agenda. I strongly object to the Sec of HHS having the power to de-certify Advantage plans and I equally strongly object to the Public Option.
Medicare Advantage is one very clear instance where we have private plans providing the same coverage as a govt plan. There is no hue and outcry from the participants. If the insured want to change they can any year in the open enrollment period. The insurance companies aren't objecting, if they did they could stop offering Advantage plans. Who then objects? Obviously the govt.
Why? It can't be the cost because they have only a small subsidy of Advantage plans whereas they have the whole costs of their own plan. I have concluded that the only reason the govt wants Advantage plans eliminated is to consolidate control and power in themselves. Mind you their costs will go up!
The Advantage participants will enroll in the govt plan, the only one available, the same one the Pres keeps harping on as way too costly. The program above all others he has singled out for huge cost reductions. Are we not right then to conclude that if there is a Public Option the same thing is likely to happen to private health insurance plans over the course of time?
This is a govt with Rahm Emanuel, the President and Nancy Pelosi that is self-centered and power hungry as it is. I do not trust them with more power. And I no longer trust AARP either. They have sold us out. It seems to me they no longer are directed toward legislation that benefits us but are more interested in selling insurance.
This Administration never has had our interests at heart. It has always been their own ultra-liberal agenda they worship. Of course they have rammed everything through that they could because they know that any Pres has just so long a "honeymoon" with the press and the electorate. This one has enjoyed an unusually long one. MSNBC still worships at his door. Keith Olbermann still drools at the very thought of Obama as Pres and still can't help but take shots at Bush.
This putrid "it's all their fault" mantra is tiresome. Now Axelrod is blaming all the current problems in Afghanistan on the Bush years, just as he has every crisis in finance, business, banks, etc. Barack Obama labeled Afghanistan as the important war and has pretty nearly forgotten Iraq. Trying to cloak himself in patriotism and concern he met the caskets of the war dead but only one family allowed photos. Bless the rest. Bless them all for their sacrifice but I'm thankful this two faced Pres didn't get the full measure publicity he probably expected and thought he deserved.
Barack Obama draping himself in the flag is way too much to stand and akin to AARP saying they have the interests of Senior Citizens at heart.