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Has anyone else taken the time to study this AARP spin-off proposal on health care? I sent them a comment March 11 and got an automatic response that said someone from their organization would respond in 3 to 5 business days. As of this writing, zippo, zilch, nada.
This group and their parent AARP only want folks to blindly go along with their propaganda and not question their intellectual honesty or, perhaps, they cannot string together a thought that falls outside of their “paragraph for a brain.”
Why should we overtaxed Americans kowtow to their opinion that it is OK for someone to be forced into give up our wealth and right to privacy and fair play? Where is the cost-benefit analysis? To seek coercive “financial security” for all and universal medical care paid for by the many to assist the few just smacks of Marxist and Fascism.
If left unchallenged, this ill-conceived idea will lead to another very costly “entitlement” that America can ill afford. Using time-value-of-money techniques I learned in the eighth grade, I don’t need their program nor should I be compelled to part with any of my or your my wealth for them.
I am asking each reader to go to their web site, and see what this proposal would cost the average American and see how few really would benefit. Think of what is best for the whole country and each of us individually. (Of course, individualism has no place in their world order.) If their idea is so meritorious, why not just make it voluntary? Then see how many would put their money –rather than yours into such a program.
W. W. Thompson
Grand Junction
3 Responses to “AARP and health care”
Posted March 31st, 2008 at 2:58 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
I assume you are independently wealthy and have no need for insurance of any kind. Maybe insurance is a Marxist and Fascist concept but it only works when any participant may or may not get his exact “investment” back in money–peace of mind, maybe. Any payout comes at the expense of all of the participants. It works, but if you never have any “losses” you have been paying for someone elses bad luck, stupidity, negligence or even fraudulent claims. If you can get by without insurance, more power to you, I can’t. The issue is coming up with a plan that works. AARP’s may not, but but some kind of insurance is neccessary for about 99.99% of the population, I’m guessing.
Posted March 31st, 2008 at 9:09 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Insurance is only necessary because our courts hand out multi-million dollar settlements that drive up costs. This is all possible thanks to the judicial systems lack of respect for zero-liability contracts. Couple this portion of the racket with monopolization of the medical profession by the American Medical Association and our prescription by doctor only system and you have the reason why medical care has been driven sky high in the last hundred years in a country that previously had very reasonable costs and a plethora of professionals.
Posted April 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
William…
Have you considered the fact that the aarp might be trying to do something that will have long range benefits, beyond the scope of our lives, affecting our children? They are a large organization now, over 30 million I think, a powerful lobby….
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