AARP Officially Endorses H.R. 3200, the Democrats’ Healthcare Overhaul


The AARP has finally come out and endorsed H.R. 3200, the Democrats’ healthcare overhaul, more commonly called “Obamacare.”

Despite its non-partisan, non-profit status, AARP has decided to go all in championing Obamacare.

It started a couple of weeks ago when the AARP held a townhall forum with Barack Obama to promote Obamacare. The carefully screened audience asked not very probing and probably pre-screened questions to assure Obamacare was framed in the most attractive veneer.

AARP’s support of Obamacare grew to holding events across the country with senior citizens, some of which didn’t turn out so well. At this AARP event we hear the AARP representatives defending H.R. 3200 and trying to combat “myths” about the plan.

From there, AARP has taken to showing up with Democrat members of Congress at Townhall events to answer seniors’ questions and preach to them the value of H.R. 3200 and Obamacare.

If that wasn’t enough, AARP has started an aggressive email campaign championing H.R. 3200 and Obama. It corresponds to this website.

The AARP website strikes down all the facts about Obamacare by calling them “myths.” The AARP’s facts go so far as to include the “public option” in H.R. 3200:

the so-called “public plan” option would seek to give American consumers another choice if they can’t find affordable, quality coverage in the private insurance market.

The corresponding email campaign says one of the myths is that the healthcare plan promotes “euthanasia”, which it objectively does — as even members of Congress say in unguarded moments. In fact, AARP’s “myth” list is very similar to other “myth” lists created by partisan Democrat groups, including Barack Obama’s own Organizing For America.

The AARP does not actually use the term “endorsement.” It can’t. It would lose its non-profit status if it did use the word “endorse”. But it has done so. The AARP claims it is just educating the public, but 100% of the education is in favor of the Democrats’ healthcare plan. There is no mention of alternate healthcare plans such as those being offered by Republicans on AARP’s website except in ancillary areas. And all the plans except H.R. 3200 are treated negatively.

The AARP has endorsed Obamacare and is actively campaigning for Obamacare. The organization is just too chicken to use the word “endorse.”

Does the AARP’s members know about the endorsement of a healthcare plan that requires seniors to get instruction every five years on assisted suicide — a fact the AARP calls a “myth”?


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I'll make it official too

SG_Lominac (Diary) Friday, August 7th at 7:09AM EST (link)

Time to dump AARP. Though I’m still two years from being eligible, I have 7 uncles/aunts still living not to mention my parents. I’ll start with that and go from there.

From the movie “Hard Times”

Jill Ireland: “What does it feel like to knock somebody down?”
Charles Bronson: “It makes me feel a hell of a lot better than it does him.”

 

I'll make it official too

SG_Lominac (Diary) Friday, August 7th at 7:09AM EST (link)

Time to dump AARP. Though I’m still two years from being eligible, I have 7 uncles/aunts still living not to mention my parents. I’ll start with that and go from there.

From the movie “Hard Times”

Jill Ireland: “What does it feel like to knock somebody down?”
Charles Bronson: “It makes me feel a hell of a lot better than it does him.”

 

Got my membership application this week.

abbynormal Friday, August 7th at 7:43AM EST (link)

I turn 50 this month (how do they know?) and AARP marked this milestone in my life by sending a membership card and application. I’ve long known AARP was an organization that didn’t support my conservative views, but their support of Obamacare is the icing on the cake. So, I cut the card in half, wrote a civil comment on the application, packed everything back in their postage paid envelope, and mailed it back to them. AARP will definately be non-profit if they have to depend on funding from the 30% of Americans who want Obama care.

 

Animal Farm version of obamacare.

spedteacher Friday, August 7th at 8:19AM EST (link)

Once there was a strong working horse named Boxer. He did not understand a whole lot of what the pigs were doing and talking about, but be did his work faithfully.
When he became too old and weak to work, he still continued to work. The pigs had “provided” a piece of land where Boxer and other older workers could retire in peace. Alas, Boxer worked himself to death and never had his retirement in peace.
On his deathbed, the pigs sent him to “the best medical care that could be provided” to help him regain his strength. However, he ended up on the butcher’s table.

the end

 

AARP is no more than ACORN for senile deliquents

kyle8 (Diary) Friday, August 7th at 8:47AM EST (link)

they have always been totally selfish, evil, and radical.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

Appalled!!!

barbarat Saturday, August 8th at 12:53AM EST (link)

I will no longer be a member of aarp….I cannot believe they agreed with the Presidents health care plan…aarp has sold us down the river!!! They are not looking out for our best interest. They should be ashamed of themselves

 
 

I dumped ARRP 4 years ago and

bobojake (Diary) Friday, August 7th at 11:12AM EST (link)

and can only encouage mass cancelation of membership. They are acting just like another Union ripping off memebership but not representing what the members want.
It is also time to defund all NON-PROFITS such as United Way and ACORN

 

AARP will have to re-name itself

izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, August 8th at 1:06AM EST (link)

SADP

Socialist
Association of
Dead
People

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

AARP: Advancing the Aged to their Resting Place --nt--

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Saturday, August 8th at 1:29AM EST (link)

I see AARP recently updated it's logo

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Saturday, August 8th at 2:33AM EST (link)

and is officially now named AARP not the “American Association for Retired People”

 
 

I am 53

iamfirmin Saturday, August 8th at 5:26AM EST (link)

My husband will NOT BE RENEWING HIS membership////…. its funny
I tried to call AArp — I could not get thru!!!!
They do NOT REPRESENT ME… if enought people drop the dues … they will understand OUR position!!!!