GOP Forms Prescription Drug Plan [AARP alligns with GOP]

FoxNews.com ^ | 11-27-02 | Major Garrett

[Salvation]

WASHINGTON

[Salvation]

For your information.

What do you all of you think here?

[Brandon]

I think the Democrats and the senior lobby have discovered that trying to scare seniors into voting against Republicans no longer works, so AARP is trying to make the best deal it can.

[BlackbirdSST]

I think we've elected more socialist! Socialist lite, but socialist non the less. Blackbird.

[annflounder]

Closest thing I've ever seen to a rational plan for dealing with (medical) drugs might be Ragnar Benson's ("Do-it Yourself Medicine", Paladin Press). Dreaming up new ways to throw ever increasing sums of money at our present medical and pharmaceutical systems is kind of like pouring gasoline on a fire to try to put it out...

[Lion's Cub]

I think Bush is accomplishing everything Hill and Bill couldn't get done on their watch.

[chiefqc]

I understand that tiny traitor tommie dashole is "troubled" by these events.

Oh wait, he's is now a hasbeen so nobody cares if he is "troubled"

[boomop1]

I got trash mail from them yesterday, when they aline themselves with conservaatives I may consider responding.

[patriciaruth]

What do you all of you think here?

We promised this so we could win Florida in the 2000 election.

We have to keep our promise before 2004, and preferably in 2003 before Chaffey and McCain switch.

It's a cost of war. Without this promise, we wouldn't be going to war with Iraq, or getting conservative judges, or building a missile defense system against North Korea, and would be in worse economic shape (no tax cut, corporate witch hunt scapegoating for the economy, Kyoto measures implemented, a second wave of terrorist attacks that hadn't been prevented by chowder headed liberals) and a demoralized military.

Thank you, dear Lord, for having mercy on us in 2000.

[nonliberal]

Where, exactly, in the Constittion does it give Congress the authority to undertake such a program?

I am twenty-seven years old. To fund this program, the government is going to have to steal more of MY money.

This is nothing more than a vote-buying scam. The AARP is the largest provider of prescription drugs in America. Once the government starts picking up the tab, the AARP can jack up the prices and make more money.

[Austin Willard Wright]

You missed the point. The AARP recognizes, as the story points, out that this is a "first step" toward full medical socialism. The GOP, by adopting this plan, is moving toward the AARP position, not vice versa.

[Marysecretary]

AARP is a left-wing socialist organization. They must be skipping down the lane with this news. Pray for wisdom for our leaders!

[Spiff]

Right now, most GOP proposals provide $300 billion in benefits over 10 years.

Who is going to pay the $30 Billion per year to give prescription handouts to seniors? Oh yeah - I am. When is this socialist nonsense going to end?!

[evaporation-plus]

I am twenty-seven years old. To fund this program, the government is going to have to steal more of MY money.

Even at their estimate of 300 billion over ten years, it would cost every person in the USA approximately $105 per year. Now since children, seniors and the unemployed won't pay, it seems like the taxpayers will pay many times that $105 for this limited program. Also, I'm sure their estimate is on the low end of what it will actually cost.

[verity]

If they can't afford meds, let 'em perish?

[Redleg Duke]

I think the AARP has finally discovered the side of the bread that is buttered...and it isn' the RAT Side!

This is another nail in the liberal coffin.

[Spiff]

If they can't afford meds, let 'em perish?

No. Instead we should steal, by force, money from working people and their families to pay for the meds.

If you want them to have meds, as I do, form a freakin' charity. This is socialism and I reject it in all of its forms.

[Salvation]

**I think the AARP has finally discovered the side of the bread that is buttered...and it isn' the RAT Side!**

Bumpo!

[Uncle Bill]

Bttt

[Coleus]

AARP alligns with GOP>>>

Very Scary. AARP is an ultra-left wing organization.

A republican seniors organization.

http://www.unitedseniors.org/