Community | November 05, 2009 | 26 comments

AMA & AARP Endorse House Health Bill: Protests Occur

source: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/obama-announces-endorsements-for-health-care-b...

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As the House HCR debate comes to a climax, President Barack Obama announced that the AARP and the AMA had endorsed the House Democrats bill. Mr. Obama said “They’re endorsing this bill because they know it will strengthen Medicare, not jeopardize it, they know it will protect the benefits our seniors receive, not cut them.”

Mr. Obama added, “I want everybody to remember that the next time you hear the same tired arguments to the contrary from the insurance companies and their lobbyists. And remember this endorsement the next time you see a bunch of misleading ads on television.”

At the same time opponents of HCR staged a protest against the bill, with a few thousand in attendance. After surveying and interviewing members of the crowd the New York Times concluded that "It’s a generally older crowd, many in their 50s and 60s, predominantly, white, and many self-identified as Christians. They are fiercely conservative and deeply skeptical of the government, many of them adamantly opposed to abortion rights."

Participants held up signs saying “No Socialistic Health Care.” “Sweeping Away Socialism One Democrat at a Time.” “Politicians Lie, Patients Die” “You lie!” & “All lies”

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed the protests and said "There is a rally going on without a solution on their side,” Mr. Gibbs said.

Link to article about Obama's announcement of the endorsements - http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/obama-announces-endorsements-for-h...

Link to article on the protests -
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/on-the-hill-protesters-chant-k...
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26 comments // AMA & AARP Endorse House Health Bill: Protests Occur

  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • My mother in Iowa tells me that hospitals are getting in on the protesting acts. They are imposing impossible rules on Medicare patients to scare them into being against health care reform labeled as socialist. Hospitals are not allowing patients to be seen by their specialists or family physicians, they are obliging them to see the admitting doctor from the emergency room. This creates fear and anger in the patients. Then somehow they make them think that what they are imposing on them is somehow related to health care reform, and that its basically a taste of what is to come, "if we socialize medicine."

      My mother called me all upset today to explain to me why I must oppose the Democrats bill, because they are going to screw all the people on Medicare. She says my aunt, who has congestive heart failure had to check herself out of the hospital she was at in Missoula, Montana. The hospital she was at is run by an HMO.

    • 2 years ago
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • That's a change in the AARP policy since I checked them out. Their literature read like the Teamster's union socialist rag.
      Must be cause they know the old people are the ones that pay the dues and they rose up and quit their subscription/policy with them a few months back. Lots of them quit AARP.
      The people that have been here for 5+ decades and people from across the Atlantic ocean see what's happening here and can't understand how any one could be buying this Health Care bill BS.
      The government wants control of the health care finances and the system. They don't give a rat's patooty about you or anyone else's health Care, they have their own great for life, not the one they say they will give us or the one we will actually get!

    • 2 years ago
  • telcod
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      telcod  

    • Jesus was no friend to capitalists, the AMA or the AARP. Single payer only and I will tear up my AARP membership and not Renew. The AARP is just shilling for the insurance companies.

    • 2 years ago
  • diabolical44
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      diabolical44  

    • I for one, would love some "socialistic healthcare." much better than the current healthcare plan I have. which is "walk it off" healthcare.

    • 2 years ago
  • mario_a
  • craigsaid
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      craigsaid  

    • Please god let the random chaos that is our political system accidentally crap out something that will help everyone below the Millionaire mark avoid indentured servitude to the Credit Bureaus.

      OMG NO! I think my spleen hurts! OMG you guys what am I gonna do!? I already used my insurance once this decade!

    • 2 years ago
  • JonRaymond
  • ibrake4rappers13
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      ibrake4rappers13  

    • its funny how the insurance industry went along with obamas healthcare at first but once they actually saw the details they went against it and now obama is calling them "self serving"

      watch out AARP dont disagree with the president

    • 2 years ago
  • JonRaymond
  • craigsaid
  • esserius
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      esserius  

    • One must wonder if this sudden action is a reaction to their failure in the minor elections that occurred within the past few days.

    • 2 years ago
  • Atalanda_Cameron
  • current89
  • mario_a
  • current89
  • current89
  • current89
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      current89  
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    • Previous update - Hoyer says House will pass Health insurance reform bill on Saturday.

      WASHINGTON - The House is steaming toward an historic vote on President Barack Obama's remake of the U.S. health care system, with Democratic leaders increasingly confident and the powerful seniors' lobby AARP about to get on board.

      Majority Leader Steny Hoyer predicts the bill to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans will pass on Saturday.

      The Maryland Democrat said House leaders will have the 218 votes needed, presuming a couple final issues are resolved. He acknowledged that the vote will be close.

      Hoyer said language on abortion and illegal immigrants was still being worked out but predicted those issues could be solved in time for Saturday's debate and vote on the legislation that the president has made his top domestic priority.

      The 10-year, $1.2 trillion bill that would extend coverage to 96 percent of Americans, require employers to insure their employees and bar such insurance company practices as dropping coverage for sick people.

      Democratic leaders shrugged off Tuesday's election losses in governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey, focusing instead on their wins in two House races, a Democratic seat in northern California and one in New York that had long been held by the GOP. Both winners will be sworn in ahead of Saturday's vote.

      Said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.: "We are on our path. We're very excited."

      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33654086/ns/politics-health_care_reform/

    • 2 years ago
  • mario_a
  • mario_a
  • boar47
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      boar47  

    • Fact: john does support health care reform by 65%.
      nursediesel has not looked at their 401K to see how much that was stolen by the industrialist and their wall street thugs. Since when does selfish and heartless in regards to the less fortunate in our society become fashionable. Where did I hear something like, 'the rich will not fit through the head of a pin to come to the kingdom of god or somesuch. Oh, the christian bible! nursedielel is a pinhead.

    • 2 years ago
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • Yeah, They know they've got to Push it through now before the next election because the American people are gonna kick their *sses out to the curb. So the health care bill and the December signing of the redistribution of USA wealth to whoever the UN decides to give it to (Global Warming Treaty) will (of couse be signed by the Nobel Peace Prize Winner) and seal our fate. We will be totally controled by a one world government! Just like the 1960's hippy politicians wanted. Punish the RICH AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS! With no care for the John Does of the country........

    • 2 years ago
  • craigsaid
  • nursediesel
  • GavinTheMother
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      GavinTheMother  
    • nursediesel:

      It's more like the "Jon Duhs" of this country. The right wingers in this country are so generally ignorant that they will criticize a plan that might actually help the average person in order to support a system that is of the rich, for the rich, and by the rich. You think you are free because your mind is narrow.

    • 2 years ago
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  
    • nursediesel:

      Unfortunately you have been hoodwinked by people that claim to be for the 'common man' but are lying to you! Once this bill gets passed it will ruin what little is correct about our health care system and only intensify the wrong.
      Follow the money. Your money is going into some politicians pocket., that does not give a s**t about your health or any one else's. They just want control of the money involved in health care. They are selling you a crock of lies. What they say they will do won't happen! Once they get control of the health care system we'll be on the road to oppression on a fast train
      You are looking at their lies through a periscope, talk about narrow-minded.

    • 2 years ago
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