Health-reform opponents are planning “Burn your AARP card” events in West Virginia to protest the group’s endorsement of the House health-care bill, the blog West Virginia Red reports.
A Charleston protest is planned for Sat. Dec 5 at noon, in front of CAMC in Kanawha City. Events are apparently planned for other cities, too, but the details aren’t firmed up.
Protest organizer and Republican candidate for the House of Delegates Fred Joseph says many participants are Tea Party members. While the title of the event is symbolic, “we will have the ability for people to burn their cards.”
They’ll use a chimenea for the fire. (What about all the discounts they’ll lose out on?)
AARP, meanwhile, has announced it’s teamed up with the American Medical Association for an ad campaign to fight reform opponents’ “scare tactics.”
The group also released a poll Nov. 16 showing that 63 percent of its members back the legislation.
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Will the discounts be enough to cover the additional cost of the proposed health care changes(endorsed by the AARP) ?
not only that but the proposed changes in medicare to the prescription drug plan and the out patient billing will more than make up for it.
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