Posted on 12/24/2009 12:00:05 PM PST by mdittmar
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 24, 2009
Contact:
AARP Media Relations, media@aarp.org
AARP Thanks Senate for Passing Health Care Reform
Association looks forward to improving legislation in conference committee
WASHINGTON—AARP CEO A. Barry Rand released this statement after this morning’s passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The vote allows members of the House of Representatives and Senate to begin merging their respective bills and enact health reform legislation early in the New Year.
“This morning the Senate brought us closer to meaningful health care reform than we have ever been before. Passage of the Senate health care reform bill clears the way for Congress to enact legislation in the coming weeks that will protect and strengthen Medicare, ensure millions more Americans can get affordable health coverage and sharply curtail discriminatory insurance company practices that keep those most in need out of the system.
“The bill passed by the Senate makes needed progress to prevent coverage denials due to health status and limit insurance companies from charging older Americans much more for coverage because of their age. It also begins to close the dangerous gap in Medicare drug coverage known as the doughnut hole, and Senate leaders have committed that a final bill will close the gap entirely by 2019, in keeping with the President’s pledge. In addition, the Senate bill adds important new Medicare benefits, like free preventive care, and encourages states to provide more home and community-based long-term care services and supports instead of costlier institutional care.
“AARP thanks the Senate for advancing this critical legislation. We look forward to working with members of both chambers during the conference committee to improve this legislation and enact a final package that is even stronger so that America’s health care system finally meets the needs of our members and all older Americans.”
For more information on AARP’s health care reform effort, please visit AARP.org.
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that helps people 50+ have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and society as a whole. AARP does not endorse candidates for public office or make contributions to either political campaigns or candidates. We produce AARP The Magazine, the definitive voice for 50+ Americans and the world's largest-circulation magazine with over 35.5 million readers; AARP Bulletin, the go-to news source for AARP's nearly 40 million members and Americans 50+; AARP Segunda Juventud, the only bilingual U.S. publication dedicated exclusively to the 50+ Hispanic community; and our website, AARP.org. AARP Foundation is an affiliated charity that provides security, protection, and empowerment to older persons in need with support from thousands of volunteers, donors, and sponsors. We have staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Wow, thanks AARP!
I love your $500 billion in Medicare cuts, Death Panels, and loss of all access to modern or state of the art technology in this horror show!
What a magnificent achievement!
AARP is a for-profit, partisan, membership organization, that rips-off people over 50 and sells them out to the highest bidder.
There. Fixed it.
I despise AARP and will never give them a red cent. They are not a nonpartisan organization. They are another left-wing supporter of the democrat party. F**k them!
The AARP runs an insurance company. Follow the money.
Oh seniors so should be hammering this organization.
They are seniors’ worst enemy.
Piss on the AARP!
I’m getting up there in years,I joined the American Seniors Association.
I’m over 50.
FU AARP and while I’m at it FUBO
It would be very interesting to know how many members they have lost in the past year - not that they really care since INSURANCE is their game.
American Association of Old Liberal People
What a huge lie that they have the best interest of seniors at heart. They support death panels, rationed care, gov’t. bureaucrats deciding who gets what procedures... This whole bill is death for seniors.
They are good people.
Every time I recieve a letter from them asking me to join it goes right into the garbage can. Nonpartisan my ass.
A. Barry Rand
AARP CEO A. Barry Rand contributed $8,900 to President Obama's campaign committees, federal records show
4,600 to Obama's election campaign and an additional $4,300 to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising entity of Obama and the Democratic National Committee.
Rand contributed $4,500 to a leadership PAC maintained by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), the National Leadership PAC, between 2004 and 2008. Rand also gave $500 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in 2007, $1,000 to the unsuccessful Senate campaign of then-Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) in 2006 and $1,000 to President Clinton's reelection campaign in 1995.
Except for the donations to Clinton and the DSCC, Rand's other contributions went to fundraising committees supporting black candidates.
I thanked AARP for canceling my membership.
I also got them and finally got fed up and wrote them back and told them to take me off their list in bold red letters, I have had nothing sense! I hope they lose a huge amount of members.
With all the people that will leave with that statement; the AARP should be shutting its doors.
If anyone claims to be an American - and still a member of AARP, they should be ashamed of themselves.
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