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Mark Tapscott: Obamacare could kill AARP
Washington Examiner ^ | 7/29/09 | Mark Tapscott

Posted on 07/29/2009 3:09:53 PM PDT by Nachum

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To: Nachum
"Obamacare could kill AARP "

Good riddance! Since it's inception it has been a worthless organization.

21 posted on 07/29/2009 3:43:35 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Churchillspirit

“I joined so I could get the cheap insurance.”

“Me too....but don’t you have to be an AARP member to keep your coverage?”

My brother called the Hartford up and they said that as long as you keep the insurance active you do not need to be a member. If you discontinue the insurance and then want it again then you must join AARP again. I haven’t been a member for over a year and I keep putting their notices in the garbage can.


22 posted on 07/29/2009 3:45:14 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
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To: taxesareforever

I’ve always been under the impression that their insurance was actually more expensive than others.


23 posted on 07/29/2009 3:50:47 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)
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To: Nachum
Marketing operations don't get any slicker than the one behind AARP. Their invitation to join arrived in my mail box even before I turned 50.

There's good reason to believe that most 50 year olds today will live to be 90 or 100 - life expectancy has been rising steadily. People at the halfway point in their lives are not retirement material - they're in the prime of their lives. If I just turned 50 and found an AARP invitation waiting for me, I'd be insulted.
24 posted on 07/29/2009 3:59:08 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Nachum

Kill off the AARP? I might have to support this.


25 posted on 07/29/2009 4:12:09 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Nachum

Thank all you AARP members for destroying our Constitutional government.

Thank God I had a Dad that alerted me to these dangerous clowns who invest MILLIONS of your dollars for Socialist programs and schmoozing congressthugs to help enslave you.

I stopped their mailouts by drawing a black border with Marks-a-lot around their “contribution/membership” request and a skull and crossbones in the center telling them not to mail me anything again—SOCIALIST! They haven’t and that’s been 17 years.

I won’t betray my country by spending a cent with them.


26 posted on 07/29/2009 4:43:29 PM PDT by brushcop (SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)
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To: taxesareforever
That is very useful information...thanks.

Just called AARP and the customer service rep confirmed that you do not have to be an active member to keep the health insurance. Told her how disgusted I was that they are backing this socialized medicine plan.

27 posted on 07/29/2009 4:44:55 PM PDT by Churchillspirit
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Mark Tapscott: Obamacare could kill AARP

We can only hope!! However with DeathCare as the "prize" for killing AARP, the price is still waaaaaaaa - aaaaaaaaayyyyy too high!!!

28 posted on 07/29/2009 5:45:02 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Churchillspirit

Spread the word. I’ll bet there are many like us who want the insurance but do not want to support AARP. I haven’t taken their 55 Alive class which is free to AARP members but I’ll sacrifice and pay the $14 dollars for the course when I get the chance.


29 posted on 07/29/2009 5:57:54 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
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To: albie

http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/articles/townhall.html

President Obama addressed AARP members’ questions about health care reform at a tele-town hall, Tuesday, July 28, 2009.
Check out the comments on it today on the AARP website.


30 posted on 07/30/2009 6:07:13 PM PDT by Freedom Rings No.1 (Don`t tax me Bro)
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“Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He has already been appointed to two key positions: health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.
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Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others” (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).
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He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled,

snips www.defendyourhealthcare.us

So if according to Emanuel, the NONdisabled should not get medical care, what is to happen to adults and children with cerebral palsy, people with dementia, or Americans who have Parkinson’s?

And AARP supports THIS?


31 posted on 07/30/2009 11:51:00 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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