Oct '09 7
By the Numbers
It looks like some of the fear and skepticism are starting to fade as older Americans learn more about the benefits of health care reform. You've read it here before: reform can mean lower drug prices, better coverage and the end of discrimination by health insurance companies. Now a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that the opposition stirred up by the scare tactics of August is subsiding, dropping 16 points in September.
Check it out for yourself here.
Tags: health care, health care reform
Comments
jeff stevens says:
ACORN is done...it will take a little while, but they will fall. Democrats in Congress will lose their majority, AARP is next. We will rallye, we will bring you down for perpetuating your lies.
10/08/09 3:49 PM
Chris Whitehead says:
Just read Mr. Rand's comments in the latest issue of AARP magazine. Just show you HOW OUT OF TOUCH he is regarding Medicare. Premiums WILL DOUBLE effective 1/1/10. I have just been billed as I am not taking Social Security at this time. Effectively, a senior gatting $500 net of the Medicare premiums in 2009 will be getting a check come the first of the year of $400 plus some change. This is a 20% DROP in benefit which will result in many many seniors seeking food stamps - thus further draining state budgets, and many seeking food banks or "soup kitchens". Many, pushed to the limit, will lose their homes due to their inability pay local taxes, thus becoming homeless. Obama is planning on filching Medicate funds of his pie in the sky health plan for all, and it now appears that by DOUBLING of Medicare premiums, thus reducing Social Security payments, he is planning on filching the Social Security fund. I find this situation uncompassionate, selfish, self-serving and many other words I am too polite to voice in this arena.
Chris W.
10/10/09 3:14 PM
Ken says:
I can't believe AARP is supporting liberal attempts to socialize medicine in America. Seniors are always the first to lose rights to treatments following funding problems in every country that adopted socialized medicine. The current bill has a formula using cost, age, etc to determine if treatment is authorized. If the computation exceeds established ceilings, the doctor will be fined if he provides the treatment. In England, you can't get open heart surgery or even a stint after reaching 59.... it's considered part of the death process. I'm done with AARP!!!
11/04/09 7:37 PM