AARP – A Democrat Front Group
Posted By John Moore on February 10, 2009
AARP claims to represent the interests of seniors.
And yet it supports the very part of the “stimulus” bill that would harm seniors the most: the use of cost-benefit analysis on what procedures the government would pay for.
Cost-benefit analysis sounds pretty good. Hey, the left should do that more often! But in Medical care, it means that if you have a shorter life expectancy, treatments for you will be less cost effective. It arrogantly assumes that the number of years you life after the procedure determines how important it is!
A 2006 case in England, where this is the practice, shows the hazards of this analysis.
It was ruled that the government would not pay for treatment for Macular Degeneration (a common vision robbing disease of the elderly) until the patient was blind in one eye! This in spite of the fact that the disease tends to advance at the same rate in both eyes.
So if you want the guys in green eyeshades determining what health care you can get by estimating how long you will “enjoy” it… then support this bill.
If, on the other hand, you are a senior who may be forced to get health care from the government (and this bill will help do that), you should condemn the AARP and drop your membership.
One more time they are acting as a shill for the Democrats rather than supporting their members.
Exactly why I have not joined AARP despite their incessant mailings to me.
Us too, and the fact we’ve been getting invitations since we turned 50! Talk about insulting. My mom cancelled her membership because of their political affiliations. What are seniors thinking in approving this type of “health care?” They of all people should know better, they are the first (or second after unborn?) disposable groups.
Found this site looking for three rules of politics, and it fit perfectly in an organization I was a member of. A competing group in the community became members of our non profit to out vote the founding group when they found out how much work and time it took to build an organization. Why work when you can takeover one. I called it a hijacking.
Found this while googling something else. But agree with you completely.
I lost it for the AARP when they elected Harry Belafonte as \man of the year\.
Now I’m looking into an alternative site for senior conservatives called NASCON, the National Association for Senior Concerns. It sounds a lot more constructive than AARP ever could be.