AARP Backs Medicare Cuts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— December 3, 2009

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‘Medicare must not be gutted’

AMERICAN SENIORS ASSN: ‘AARP BACKS MEDICARE CUTS’ 

      ATLANTA— “It is outrageous that the left-wing AARP endorses a multi-trillion dollar, governmental takeover of healthcare in pending Senate legislation, but it is absolutely incredible that it betrays its senior citizen membership by supporting $460 billion in Medicare cuts to pay for the takeover,” says Stuart Barton, president of the American Seniors Association (ASA) representing hundreds of thousands of members nationwide.

      “AARP CEO Barry Rand claims the legislation doesn’t reduce any Medicare benefits and only seeks to eliminate Medicare fraud and waste, yet that is simply not true,” Barton says. “Democrat and Republican senators have rightly countered that this bill hurts seniors’ add-on benefits that are part of the coverage under private insurance Medicare. ASA also agrees with those senators who underscore that Medicare must not be used as a piggy bank to pay for other programs.”

      “The AARP has sold out to congressional Democrat leaders and the White House so it can have a monopoly on selling insurance and thus reap profits under Obamacare. The AARP is not standing up for seniors, but ASA is fighting,” Barton says. “We appreciate senators – Republican, Democrat and Independent— who oppose socialistic control over our healthcare, who want Americans to be able to choose their own healthcare provider and insurer, and who are working to derail this legislative monstrosity.”

    “The AARP continues to lose thousands and thousands of members because of its lobbying for Obamacare, higher taxes and big government-- and that is why ASA is getting even more torn-up AARP cards in our mail and why our alternative group’s membership is rapidly growing every day,” Barton notes.

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