60 Plus Association has released a video carrying the message “Tell Congress: Don’t pay for health care reform on the backs of our seniors”. The video is current available in Youtube.
FactCheck.org posted that the normal conservative 60 Plus Association is running a TV ad saying Congress plans to pay for overhauling health care “by cutting $500 billion from Medicare.”
It claims that this “will mean long waits for care” and cuts to MRIs and other imaging services, that “seniors may lose their own doctors” and that “government, not doctors, will decide if older patients are worth the cost.”
Actually, the House leadership’s version of the health care bill would trim a net total of only $219 billion from the projected growth of Medicare spending over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
And Congress isn’t proposing to cut benefit levels or to deny treatment to anyone who is “not worth the cost.” We find this ad to be mostly false.
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Elsewhere, Associatedcontent, posted that:
60 Plus Association and the Fight Against Health Care Reform
Obamacare Sinking like a Great Ship
One of the players in the health care debate in an organization calling itself the 60 Plus Association has been running an ad against health care reform the invokes everything from the landings on Normandy to the Great Depression.
The 60 Plus Association brands itself as a “conservative alternative” to the AARP. The AARP, which has not officially endorsed any form of health care reform, despite what President Obama said in the New
60 Plus Association and the Fight Against Health Care Reform Hampshire town hall meeting, still seems to be supportive of some form of health care reform, much to the ire of many of its members.
The ad by the 60 Plus Association suggests that health care reform would fall heaviest on senior citizens. Not only is a half a trillion cut in Medicare contemplated to help pay for health care reform, but since a great deal of the costs of health care occur toward the end of life, the suspicion is that health care rationing would hit senior citizens the heaviest.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took advantage of this suspicion by branding the so-called “end of life: counseling provisions of health care reform “death panels.” Proponents of health care reform were aghast at the idea that the end of life provisions would somehow imply that people who were terminally ill or who had serious and expensive to treat conditions might be denied health care to extend or improve their lives and instead be allowed to die. Nevertheless, public outrage over this provision was so intense that the Senate was obliged to strip the provision from its version of health care reform.
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