36. AARP Dumps Seniors

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has come out in favor of nationalizing health care, after dancing around the issue for months [Blog 25].

AARP has betrayed their constituency, the sebiors.  AARP now supports:

--  A 20% cut in Medicare spending.

--  Rationing of care.

--  Discriminating against seniors [Blog 24].

--  Taxation of medical devices such as hearing aids.

--  Creation of 111 new government agencies.

--  Spending of trillions of dollars that don't exist, causing inflation.

--  Government control over doctors and hospitals.

For a beautifully written example of how government control of health care results in destruction of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness, read "Noble Vision", by Gen LaGreca [Blog 10]..

--  Government control over medical and surgical treatments.

--  Forced participation in government insurance.

AARP seems perfectly willing to sacrifice the interests of their members to such collectivist butchers as E. Emanuel [Blog 24] and the Great Polished Liar [Blog 1 and 2].  It is the pragmatic (unprincipled) thing to do [Blog 32].

AARP is a big business, in insurance (health, dental, auto, etc.) and publications with lots of advertising.

Hitler was able to get the cooperation of some business men for his national socialist (Nazi) regime.  For details, see "The Ominous Parallels", by Leonard Peikoff.

Full disclosure:  I am a member of AARP, solely in order to buy their Medicare-supplement insurance.  If any reader knows of a reasonable alternative, please tell me about it.

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