Tuesday, November 10, 2009

AARP sells out seniors, and in the UK: no surgery for you!

AARP sells out seniors, and in the UK: no surgery for you!

No wonder the AARP endorsed the plan. Follow the money! Here's what the American Family Association says about AARP's endorsement:
PelosiCare will also cut Medicare Advantage by $170 billion. Medicare Advantage allows seniors to purchase private insurance with their Medicare payments, but these cuts will drive many of these seniors into inferior Medigap plans.

AARP has a vested interest in seniors being driven out of Medicare Advantage into Medigap plans because AARP makes a fortune in royalty fees from Medigap plans. More than one-half of its $1.1 billion budget comes from such royalty fees, and Medigap plans make up the biggest share of this royalty revenue by far.
AARP sold seniors down the river for their bottom line. When health care rationing is instituted and seniors can't get hip and knee replacements because they're "too old" or they have to wait in line for months or even years to qualify what will AARP do for them?

Won't happen, you say? It already is under the UK socialized medicine debacle. Three surgeons in Letterkenny, Ireland recently blew the whistle on how they are sitting around doing nothing (and earning about $300,000 a year to do it) because the national health service is out of money. They are conserving by canceling all "elective" surgeries which includes hip and knee replacements which disproportionately affects older people. Welcome to health care rationing. "Take the pain pills, pal, no surgery for you!"

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