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January 5th, 2010
02:00 PM ET
We Listen: Your Comments – January 5, 2010
Editor's Note: Tuesday’s American Morning audience reacted strongly to part two of Carol Costello's report on health care lobbying groups.
- Dan: Absolutely un-[…]-believable!! Costello is doing a feature on lobbying the health care bill and she singles out the SEIU? Can no one at CNN tell the difference between groups who lobby for the rights of average Americans and those who spend tens of millions trying to protect the profits of the huge health industry corporations? In this age where "lobbyists" are framed in a very negative light, singling out SEIU, and AARP, is reprehensible. Of course, those groups are not spending nearly the sums that the industry groups are on advertising on CNN. You people truly suck.
- Eliot: I was interested this morning to FINALLY see a story coming up about the outsized influence lobbyists are playing in the health care debate. I was, however, shocked to see your story focused exclusively on the SEIU president and their lone lobbyist and contained not a mention of the probably 5000 lobbyists working against reform. Your report was deliberately deceptive, misleading and completely transparent in its aim.
- Art: Two thousand pages in the house bill, and I will bet that half of that was written by or for some lobby and not for those in need of decent health care. Get rid of the lobbyists!
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150k quitting the aarp? that smattering is about proportionate to the % of far-right tea-baggers on the right. 150k out of 4 million members? 2m new members? the tone and focus of the feature this morning sounded like something straight out of fox news. this is not chinatown. it is one thing for citizens to lean on ignorance, it is another for this news organization to portray it as a valid reflection of what our nation wants. the majority wants healthcare reform, and in a far-less diluted form than what the political game has made of it.
Carol Costello's story on AARP: the story failed to mention how many of us stayed with AARP because they DID take a position. Health care in the U.S. and action by the congress may be a work in progress (forever?) but you have to start somewhere to correct the system!
I've compared Medicare Advantage with Medigap policies. I found that an Advantage policies leaves a person with very high deductibles. Medicare plus a Medigap policy provides more coverage and a better value. Dig into the difierences and you will find the reason for AARP's position.
When I turned 50 I joined AARP, 2 months later I had a stroke. I subsiquently applied for health insurance with AARP and was denied. I can see me having a higher monthly payment due to a pre-existing condition, but totally denying me coverage is so wrong.
Give me a break, Dan and Eliot. What part of lala land did you slide out of??? I'm one who quit AARP and apologize to no one. And, one lobbyist? Seems like their prez is one too altho not licensed. How many times has he visited the White House? Quite a few.
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There is room for plenty of debate on the issue of health care reform. But AARP has a proven and consistent track record of being an informed advocate in the better interest of seniors. They thoroughly investigate the pros and cons on issues such as these and provide excellent guidance.Usually, if they are for it, it almost certainly is good for seniors.