Why AARP supports Obamacare

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603392.html

Below are some excerpts, but read the entire article

"AARP: Reform advocate and insurance salesman
Seniors group makes millions from royalties on health plans"

"...not advertised in this lobbying campaign have been the group's (AARP) substantial earnings from insurance royalties and the potential benefits that could come its way from many of the reform proposals."

"The group and its subsidiaries collected more than $650 million in royalties and other fees last year from the sale of insurance policies, credit cards and other products that carry the AARP name,..."

"AARP's annual financial report shows that 63 percent of that, or about $400 million, came from the nation's largest health insurance carrier, UnitedHealth Group, which underwrites four major AARP Medigap policies."

Couldn't have said it better Mr Sherman. A senator being paid by big Health Insurance is no differant than you trying to slip a cop a fifty to tear up a ticket..IT IS BRIBERY and you can go to jail. But even after it is made public, Americans are so stupid to still think our leaders are deciding issues with us in mind. it is not our futures, it is who fills their pockets the most that decides what they vote on and how.The Mafia made millions bribing public officials to get contracts, most got caught and sent to prison. These clowns get sent to the Senate to make more money.

Let me ask you something, Mr. Sherman. What if you discovered that the vet who takes care of your dog was Michael Vick? Would you think twice about bringing Fido back for his annual shots? Or what if you discovered that your auto mechanic was a member of Greenpeace? Would you think twice about having him work on your SUV? Of course you would. Just as, I hope, you would think twice about trusting your health care to someone who secretly despised -- or simply didn't understand -- the free-market capitalist system that makes profits and prosperity possible.

There IS a better way than the prosperity-wrecking big-government policies of Barack Obama and his merry band of neo-socialists. America's free market has been the engine of America's great progress. The role of lawmakers is NOT to disparage wealth, but to expand its reach; not to stifle the market, but to strengthen its ability to unleash the creativity and innovation that still makes this nation the envy of the world.

Only the vitality of the private sector — a truly free one, unencumbered by the crippling stranglehold of burdensome government regulation — can lift America out of the unsustainable mess that liberals created. The better way is this: complete deregulation of medicine and health insurance. State mandates raise the cost of insurance by forcing people to have coverage many would never buy on their own. The federal government reinforces this crazy system by forbidding competition across state lines. That must end, along with restrictions on Health Savings Accounts.

A free medical market would bring lower prices and better services. The price of insurance would come down with the price of care. The only way to avoid Medicare's collapse is to get retired people onto private insurance plans that they pay for themselves. Since many on fixed incomes would have trouble buying even inexpensive insurance. I propose we sell off the 507 million acres that the federal government owns and give the proceeds to the oldest and most needy. Then we must free younger workers from the albatross of Medicare so they can save for whatever medical services they choose, now and in retirement. Free enterprise is the only way to lift us all out of this mess. To think otherwise is to follow the tragic mistakes of the Soviet Union, East Germany and other socialist nations in the trash heap of history.

The U.S. is still free enterprise and headed to the trash heap anyway.