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Seniors lose insurance and doctors under Obamacare [Thank you, AARP /sarc]
The Daily Caller ^ | 11/8/2013 | Evan Gahr

Posted on 11/08/2013 6:43:37 PM PST by markomalley

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1 posted on 11/08/2013 6:43:37 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

How much you wanna bet old NJ Schokowitz is a liberal?
Odds of him voting for a conservative? Slim to none—Christie Cream excluded cuz he aint conservative.


2 posted on 11/08/2013 6:51:08 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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One pays a severe price sometimes for being ignorant.


3 posted on 11/08/2013 7:01:49 PM PST by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about its implications.)
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To: markomalley

For Obamacare to survive, older folks need to die.

Obama promised “...to fundamentally change America.” He has.


4 posted on 11/08/2013 7:05:42 PM PST by Gator113 ( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: markomalley

The gift that keeps on giving.

Could it be possible that Old Ed Schokowitz could be votin’ R for the first time in his life come Nov 2014?


5 posted on 11/08/2013 7:07:51 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: markomalley

Good!


6 posted on 11/08/2013 7:09:32 PM PST by sport
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From AARP forum 08/12:

The TRUTH is...the medicare savings will add another 8-10 years of solvency to Medicare without touching benefits, while, according to the CBO, Medicare spending is expected to nearly double by 2020. Meanwhile, Medicare Advantage premiums are down and enrollment is up, according to HHS — hardly indicative of a plan that’s suffering due to the ACA. (Affordable Care Act)

The Romney campaign appears to be engaged in a pattern that involves creating and spreading a new and colossal Lie of the Week. Prior whoppers include the “Obama is disenfranchising military voters lie” (debunked) and the “Obama is gutting welfare reform lie” (also debunked).

By now, we all know what happened this week. On Sunday’s Meet the Press, right-wing Rich Lowry shouted down Rachel Maddow on Medicare, saying that “Obamacare” cuts $700 billion from the program.

Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu appeared on CNN the next day and shouted down Soledad O’Brien with the same crap-on-a-stick. Specifically, he repeated the massive lie that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the ACA or “Obamacare”) cuts $717 billion from Medicare, implying that benefits were cut.

Where is this LIE going to stop that started out as $500 billion now we’re up to to the $700 billions ?

It turns out that the $717 billion number that Sununu was screeching about on CNN was pulled out of a July 24 CBO memo about the House plan to repeal Obamacare. Doug Elmendorf explained, “Spending for Medicare would increase by an estimated $716 billion over that 2013-2022 period.” There’s nothing in there about benefit cuts or anything else the Republicans have said. Nothing.

From here, the viral lie infected the discourse like the Ebola virus.


7 posted on 11/08/2013 7:11:43 PM PST by Rusty0604
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Asked if Obama had betrayed seniors with his famous promise to Americans that they could keep their doctor and health plan Gruber insisted that, “He was not really talking about seniors.”

Obama's taking money from the Medicare Advantage program to shore up ObamaCare ... another 'bait and switch' from democrats...

8 posted on 11/08/2013 7:12:19 PM PST by GOPJ
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“The President said you can’t be kicked out of your plan. He lies.”

No, he said, "You can't be kicked out of your plan unless you can be kicked out of your plan."

9 posted on 11/08/2013 7:12:30 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: OldPossum

Sometimes you pay a severe price for other’s ignorance.


10 posted on 11/08/2013 7:13:42 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Ken H

No, he said, “You can’t be kicked out of your plan unless you can be kicked out of your plan.”

Can’t touch that!


11 posted on 11/08/2013 7:18:47 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: markomalley

My relatives are very concerned over this whole mess. Everyone is wondering what bad news is coming next.


12 posted on 11/08/2013 7:19:51 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: markomalley

The “deer in the headlights” moment has occurred throughout the ages, when Roman soldiers took your farm, or when the gestapo broke down your door, or when you get that letter dropping your health insurance unconditionally when you most need it.


13 posted on 11/08/2013 7:23:01 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Democrats and many journalists have long insisted that Obamacare cuts to Medicare would not harm patients and dismissed Republican objects as partisan grandstanding.

Except, of course, near election time when the wail goes up that the Republicans will cut Medicare.

but, but, the DemocRATs ACTUALLY DID! No, that doesn't matter.

14 posted on 11/08/2013 7:26:16 PM PST by NonValueAdded (It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
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To: sport

Go to hell!!!


15 posted on 11/08/2013 7:29:47 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Ciexyz

My relatives are very concerned over this whole mess. Everyone is wondering what bad news is coming next.

The really neat thing is that seniors are huge voting block and obamaramadingdong and the demonrats are really pissing them off.


16 posted on 11/08/2013 7:34:38 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: dalereed

I don’t like your mama’s cooking.


17 posted on 11/08/2013 7:35:16 PM PST by sport
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To: markomalley

AARP is an accomplice to Obozocare. They signed on early to destroy HMOs as they stand to make a billions dollars shilling MediGap policies. I will never have anything to do with AARP.


18 posted on 11/08/2013 7:39:17 PM PST by donaldo
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To: OldPossum
"One pays a severe price sometimes for being ignorant.

The problem is... those of us who did know what was happening have to pay as well. It just makes me steaming mad at the moonbats. I used to think they were just quaint and annoying. But now they seem like jerks, without a clue, who ruined everything for all of us. *Spit*

19 posted on 11/08/2013 7:44:44 PM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, architecht of the Massachuseets health insurance law that was the model for Obamacare, told the Daily Caller that seniors who stand to lose their doctors and Medicare Advantage plans must be sacrificed for the greater good.

This is also happening in Medicaid. So a large portion of Obama/Democrat voters in the "old and poor" demographics will be sacrificed for the greater good. Even a modest reduction of 4-5% in those demographics could swing elections to the conservative side.

I am not sure that's what he had in mind "for the greater good."

20 posted on 11/08/2013 7:51:18 PM PST by D Rider
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