American Seniors Association (the AARP alternative) Blasts Obama/AARP Health Care Plan

Offers 2 for 1 membership with mailed in torn up AARP membership card

Will Malven
8/12/2009

Wow! Did you watch that open admission non-stacked audience "Town Hall Meeting" with the President yesterday? That had to be the most one-sided, pro Obama, pro Democrat Health Care audience ever. If that audience wasn't screened for their views, then Democrats beat the odds and won every seat in the "lottery" of tickets the White House distributed.

The Pres stated that he didn't want just sympathetic questions during the Q&A session, but the audience was so carefully stacked that he couldn't get one. The one question that might have been critical of Obama care was asked by a woman who got so flummoxed by the President winking at her that she couldn't finish her question. Instead she turned to those around her and gushed "He winked at me!"

...boy that's some tough audience...Do these idiots in the White House believe they are fooling anyone? They think we're fools out here.

Similarly, AARP attempted to claim that they don't support any "one" of the Health Care bills currently before Congress...note the qualifier...of course they don't support any "one" of the bills, they support them all as long as they come from Democrats.

Well the good guys are beginning to speak out now. ASA has posted the following comments on their webpage:

AMERICAN SENIORS ASSOCIATION BLASTS OBAMA AARP HEATHCARE PUSH

“President Obama must think the American people are idiots if he thinks the healthcare rationing, restrictions and regulations being debated in Congress will save money and result in better preventative medicine,” says Stuart Barton, president of the Atlanta-based AmericanSeniors.org that represents hundreds of thousands of members nationwide.

You're right Stuart they do. Like typical Liberals, they believe they are the only ones who understand the health care issue and the rest of America should just shut up and take what they are given.

“The president told the AARP meeting that opponents are “making people scared.” ”Well, they ought to be scared at current proposals,” Barton said. “The Congressional Budget Office estimates the plan’s cost over 10 years would be $1.2 to $1.8 trillion. That’s absurd in a recession, let alone good times.”

If anyone is scaring people, it is the Democrats and the White House with their $13 Trillion in national debt they are on target for. CBO estimates that Obama care will add $239 Billion to the deficit over the next 10 years...but, but, I thought it was supposed to reduce health care costs Mr. President.

"The ASA has three major concerns:

1. a government-run plan would limit patient- doctor choice
2. there would be an employer mandate that would kill jobs and lower wages and
3. the current legislation being debated attacks baby boomer and seniors by cutting $500 billion out of Medicare over the next 10 years.

All are legitimate concerns that Congress and Obama have failed to address except by using platitudes and generalizations.

“On page 425 of the bill, a person must go to counseling every five years to basically learn how to die,” Barton says. “As I read this and hear about no preventative care, it dawned on me that Obama’s plan is to let all these baby boomers die quicker so we don’t have to care for them in old age.”

I'm not certain I agree with this claim, as the language in the bill does not specifically say this, but I will allow that given the was similar health care programs are executed in Europe and Canada, this is a reasonable projection of what would result from these bills.

There are three good organizations for us old farts; two are advocacy only groups that support the Constitution and not the Democrat Party, 60 Plus Association and RetireSave. Both appear to be great organizations which advocate Conservative principles and oppose the Democrat Party's aggressive move toward Socialism.

The third is the ASA. ASA offers insurance discounts, pharmaceutical discounts, travel discounts and seniors' issues advocacy with a Conservative spin.

All three of these organizations are good alternatives to the AARP/Democrat Party cabal as far as I can tell. I have not fully investigated them, but what I have found out is good.

Last thing; the ASA is currently offering a 2 for 1 membership deal:

The American Seniors Association (ASA) invites any American Association of Retired Persons member to mail us your torn AARP card and receive a 2 year- for- 1 year membership with ASA. Our organization representing hundreds of thousands of members believes we need health care reform, but we want what is best for seniors. ASA wants to cut wasteful spending in Medicare. ASA wants to see the Congress work to curb frivolous lawsuits that drive up the costs of doctor’s malpractice insurance. Our system needs an overhaul, but we do not need expensive Obamacare or anything resembling it.

ASA is looking out for seniors by fighting a health care reform bill that will cost upward of $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years and cuts in Medicare of $500 billion. ASA wants seniors to live longer, more fulfilling years of life-- not an “end of life” continuum that this bill suggests.

So please mail ASA your torn AARP card and/or visit our website www.americanseniors.org and ensure your voice is heard.

American Seniors Association, 3700 Mansell Road,Suite 220, Alpharetta, GA 30022

WaHoo! What are you waiting for folks? Time to take AARP down; they've been in the tank for the Democrat Party for decades and apparently are just too important to listen to their members' concerns.

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Obama unedited still wants to go to "single payer" healthcare

Will Malven
8/04/2009

Well, the Obama White House has already come out lying about what the President said back in 2007 about his goal being a single payer health care plan. The claim being asserted by Linda Douglass, a former ABC News correspondent who is now an official flack for the White House rather than an unofficial one as she used to be when she worked for ABC, in a video being touted by the White House and all sympathetic pundits as a "rebuttal" to the video I posted yesterday with the title "SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS.

The claim being made by Linda Douglas and the White House damage control team is that the video distorts what the president was actually saying by cutting and piecing together clips and taking them out of context. Interestingly, she never actually addresses what the original video shows, she merely asserts that the President was "taken out of context."

After that she goes on the play two clips that she asserts "you probably haven't heard from those sources," which show Obama in June of this year telling us what he has been saying for the past few months:

"If you like the coverage that you already have, you can keep
it."

This is, of course, a straw man argument, no one has said that the president hasn't been saying that exact thing recently the point of the videos in question is that what he has been saying recently isn't what he truly believes or what he has been saying throughout his political history.

Here's video 1 where Obama back in 2003 talks about a single payer system and that it will take time to achieve that goal.



Ms. Douglas also doesn't respond to the statements of Representatives Barney Franks (D-MA) and Jan Shakowsky (D-IL) which also show the clear intent of the Heath Care Reform bill that Democrats are attempting to push through Congress. Neither of those clips were "taken out of context."

In fact both of those members of Congress are proud of their stance...and for that I honor them. They are unapologetic socialists and wrong to boot, but at least they are honest in their desires and aims. Our President lacks such candor and backbone.

Since Ms. Douglas has made this false assertion, I am posting the original, relevent and uncut portion of Obama's appearance at the Las Vegas SEIU Health Care Forum for the Democrat Presidential Candidates.



The volume is pretty low, unlike the earlier clip; I apologize, but I have no control over what is posted on YouTube.

There can be no doubt that Obama stated that he wanted a system:

...that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort , but I don't think we are going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately" [Emphasis added]

No if's, no and's, no but's about it. He said it, he meant it, he didn't equivocate or hesitate, he wants to take health care coverage out of the hands of employers and put it in the hands of the government.
Ms. Douglas, you can lie about it, you can avoid answering the issue, you can accuse the blog world of distortion, but you cannot prevent the truth from getting out...


...not even with your little army of informers (neighbor informing on neighbor - now that is scarey, shades of the old East German Stasi or the old Soviet Union).

Isn't that a pleasant thought from the Obama Administration? They are now asking that we become a society of informers...how very Stalinesque of Obama. Here's the money quote from WhiteHouse.gov:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov. [and we will forward it to the Secret Service? Maybe the FBI or the IRS for a little impromptu auditing?]

Gee! Nothing worrying about that...

Well Linda, the only thing I see that's fishy is occurring in the White House and in Congress within the Democrat Party...should I report that?

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Democrats Block GOP Health Care Mailing

Will Malven
7/23/2009

Once again we see that Democrats in Congress will go to any lengths to prevent the truth from getting out about the Obama-care health care bill now in Congress. Proof once more that Democrats care nothing about the American people or solving their problems, they care only about controlling us.

Roll Call has the low-down on these devils and their efforts to keep the voters out of the loop:

Democrats Block GOP Health Care Mailing

July 23, 2009
By Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff

Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority’s health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate.

House Republicans are crying foul and claiming that the Democrats are using their majority to prevent GOP Members from communicating with their constituents.

The dispute centers on a chart (view PDF) created by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee to illustrate the organization of the Democratic health care plan.

Democrats don't want you to see it because it shows just how screwed up the health care plan really is. It is a bureaucratic nightmare of huge proportions.

The flow chart resembles a game board designed up by some crazed, uninformed, Liberal politician (which of course it was) with a maze of arrows and colored blocks, each of which represents some bureaucratic hurdle consumers must overcome before they receive treatment.

I doubt very seriously the famous cartoonist Rube Goldberg could have designed anything more complicated...or ridiculous.

Governmental interference caused the current financial crisis and Democrats are attempting to solve the problem with governmental interference.

Governmental interference caused the health care crisis and true to form, Democrats are hide bound to "solve" it with...you guessed it...more governmental interference.

Here's a clue to you Democrats out there. No matter how much you wish it were so, the federal government has never accomplished anything better, more efficiently, or cheaper than private enterprise...NEVER!!!

Given that undeniable fact; proven over and over again, why on Earth would anyone look to our federal bureaucracy to solve a problem as complex, far reaching, and intrusive on the individual's privacy as health care?

One can only surmise that it derives from profound and over-arching stupidity. Certainly there appears to be enough of it to go around within the Democrat Party; beginning with our current president and the majority leaders in both houses of Congress.

Well, I'm doing my little part to get the message out to Republicans and all American citizens. With the web and all of the alternate news sources it has, Democrats will fail in this effort to censor Republicans in Congress and once more prove that they oppose the free flow of information of value to their own constituents.

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