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Hi,

My inbox has been flooded with emails spreading crazy rumors about health reform so I wanted to share some facts from AARP about what's really going on. Please join me in forwarding these facts to everyone you know. Print them out and pass them around at your social gatherings and other places where people are discussing the issues of the day.

FACT #1: Medicare will not be ended, and no benefits or services will be cut.

Your services will not be ended, nor will your benefits be cut. AARP's position on this could not be clearer. And we have sent this message loud and clear to Congress. While the current proposals include savings in Medicare by cutting out fraud, abuse, waste, and inefficiency, we're standing up and making sure benefits for Medicare recipients are not only fully protected, but are improved.1

FACT #2: No legislation currently in Congress would mandate the rationing of care. Period.

Our staff has read all of the legislation circulating in Congress and there are no provisions in these bills that would ration care for our members. None. If any ever did, we would vigorously fight to stop that legislation.2

FACT #3: There is no provision of any piece of legislation that would promote euthanasia of any kind.

The rumors out there are flat out lies. Right now Medicare does not cover counseling for end-of-life care. The portion of the bill in question would simply provide coverage for optional end-of-life consultations with doctors, so that the patient can be aware of all of the treatment options on the table. It is not mandatory and it has nothing to do with euthanasia.3

FACT #4: We have not endorsed President Obama's plan.

In fact, we haven't endorsed any plan. We are supporting reform of our health care system, something that AARP has pushed for many years. We're working closely with Republican and Democratic members of Congress to lower health care costs and to ensure quality affordable coverage for older Americans – and we want reform legislation passed and signed by the president this year.4

So what is AARP fighting for in health reform?

  1. Stopping insurance companies from charging older Americans unaffordable premiums because of their age.
  2. Ending the practice of excluding people from insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
  3. Holding down health costs and making insurance coverage more affordable for all Americans.
  4. Making prescription drugs more affordable by narrowing the Medicare doughnut hole, bringing generics to market faster, and allowing Medicare to negotiate better drug prices.

Find out more and take action at HealthActionNow.org.

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Comments

Avatar Tenaj -
#1
The Lie/Scare campaign of Obama's Health care plan is totally sick, but it's a desperate act and these people have nothing else. There are websites, media programs and organizations formed to do this.    Oh to be so miserable. What losers they are.
Avatar four4me -
#2
I got this email also and it make you wonder if aarp isn't just trying to pull the wool over older peoples eyes. The big picture is government health care doesn't work for everyone concerned ask any disabled veteran how they view the health care system in place that they receive from the government.

The wait between visits. The inability to have their questions answered or correctly diagnose new health problems and all the red tape involved. Health care providers who constantly change making it almost impossible to have the same doctor for any individual illness. ie see the same doctor for orthopedics, urology, hypertension, or any specialized cases etc.

The Veterans hospital higher ups will tell you they have the best health care network of any health care systems in the country. They might have a network in place but the service is lacking structurally because the same doctors aren't available to you. If you were to get an artificial knee for example i would expect that the doctor i had faith and confidence in was the doctor that was going to do the job. But in the three months wait or longer before surgery that doctor has rotated out a different doctor does the job a person whom one might not have previous contact with.

In fact on the day they have you scheduled for your operation, by the time they have you prepped and sedated for the operation the doctor who's going to do the job comes in he says I'm the doctor that's is going to do your knee and you say where's my doctor that i have spoke to twice before he said he was going to do my knee.... pause..... as the new doctor speaks up excuse me sir/madam do you want your knee fixed or not, of course i do you say and in your inebriated condition they rush you in the OR and before you know it a doctor whom you have just met briefly is performing your operation. Give me a friggin break

Of course you have the option to decline the operation start the process all over again. And a month to year later be scheduled for another operation only to have the same thing occur again.

Unless i am in an emergency condition beyond my control i do not want a doctor operating on me or any of my family whom i haven't gained some trust in by having repeated visits with him/her checked their credentials and spoken with his staff as to his creditability as a surgeon. How may times he has performed this operation and what were the results. Did he/she have more success or failures at this task.   

Anybody interested in this new health care plan better check out everything very closely before committing to any intelligent decision. The life you save might be your own.   







Avatar time*treat -
#3
What I find strange is that so many people will write long articles about a bill, trying to get you to be for or against it, without ever telling you the bill number or where you can find the actual read-it-for-yourself text of the bill.
Avatar four4me -
#4
here copy and paste the link
http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1722:hr-3200-americas-affordable-health-choices-act-of-2009-markup-day-5&catid=141:full-committee&Itemid=85

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