Seniors' Alerts
Dr. Lawrence Hunter
August 24, 2009
Not only will Social Security recipients NOT get a cost of living increase next year—according the Washington’s Enron accounting system the cost of living is not increasing—their Social Security checks will likely GO DOWN...
Dr. Lawrence Hunter
August 5, 2009
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are back home under siege from angry constituents terrified over the House version of ObamaCare. Meanwhile, a few Republican Senators remain huddled with Democrats on Capitol Hill trying to construct a legislative Trojan RHINO with ObamaCare hiding inside disguised as a bipartisan compromise. Call it RHINOCare—Republican Healthcare In Name Only—and it is nothing but a ploy to deceive people into inviting government-run healthcare into America.
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
The AP reports that, “Instead of votes in the House and Senate by August, the best Democrats may be able to hope for this summer is action by the full House by the end of the month and some sort of agreement on a bipartisan plan in the Senate before lawmakers head home for vacation.”...
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
July 17, 2009
Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden told an AARP town hall meeting, “We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation.” And then he said we have to nationalize healthcare to prevent it. Huh?
Here Joe’s explanation, which he offered in answer to his own question: ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’ The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you.”
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
July 9, 2009
Don’t be snookered by AARP, the Obama Administration and the pharmaceutical industry. They are trying to snow you into believing seniors will get a great deal under ObamaCare when in fact they are setting you up for healthcare rationing and cuts to Medicare to pay for a loony system that won’t work and they can’t pay for.
According to an article in yesterday’s Washington Post, all the deals the Obama Administration has made—with the pharmaceutical industry, with hospitals, with insurance companies and the AMA—are fraying at the edges, and congressional Democrats are getting nervous that there will be a backlash among Americans, especially seniors, when they figure out what ObamaCare will really mean for them.
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
June 22, 2009
Washington Post reporter Ceci Connolly, "Obama Brings The Pain For Health Care's Gain", describes how AARP sold out seniors by sitting on the sidelines and refusing to put up a fight to stop cuts to Medicare, higher Medicare premiums and putting the squeeze on Medicare healthcare providers, which results in less care for seniors...
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
June 22, 2009
Here is a commentary by Michael Reagan from June 10 that I missed so I thought I would alert you to it now. Reagan discusses what “efficiency” means to the old and infirm when a government bureaucracy takes over healthcare.
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
June 4, 2009
Until now, President Obama has been evasive about what kind of government-run healthcare program he wants to see imposed on the American public. Yesterday he tipped his hand in a letter to top Senate Democrats letter—mandatory insurance for everyone paid for by mandatory, government-controlled premiums (aka “taxes”) with mandated cost-sharing by employers (aka “taxes);” creation of a public-run Medicaid-like “option,” which not only would be open to buy-in by anyone but also would provide subsidized and free healthcare for those the government deems “needy;” and price controls and rationing of medical care to old people under Medicare and Medicaid, the implementation of which would be entrusted to a new federal independent agency outside the reach of Congress.
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
May 6, 2009
The President and his liberal colleagues in the Congress want to nationalize healthcare in the name of the uninsured. Yet, the objective of nationalizing healthcare with a so-called “public option” is to destroy private insurance altogether. When the government runs healthcare, no one will be insured and everyone will be dependent on the government for all healthcare...
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
April 23, 2009
We just received word from Senator DeMint that he intends to offer a motion to instruct conferees on the Budget Resolution to include a point of order against any health care legislation that socializes medicine. This legislative maneuver provides seniors the first real opportunity to send the Congress a message that they will not tolerate legislation that nationalizes healthcare and turns it over to the government to run.
Specifically, the point of order called for in the motion would: (1) preserve the ability of Americans to keep their health plan; (2) preserve their choice of doctor; and (3) prevent them from being shifted from private health insurance into government-managed and government-rationed health care.
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
April 7, 2009
The Administration intends to spend half the Social Security surplus during this year and next to bail out big, bad banks. The total Social Security surplus in 2009 is projected to equal $217 billion; the Obama Administration proposes to spend $125 billon of it to bail out the banks. The total Social Security surplus in 2010 is projected to equal $231.1 billion;
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Dr. Lawrence Hunter
April 4, 2009
Today’s Wall Street Journal editorializes that two of President Obama’s three major proposals—cap-and-tax on carbon energy and repealing the secret ballot (so-called “card check) for workers’ votes to decide whether they want to unionize—are collapsing under withering attack and large lobbying expenditures by the business community. That’s good news for seniors who would suffer the brunt of higher energy prices under any cap-and-tax carbon energy limitation and would see part-time employment opportunities evaporate with unions imposing higher costs on businesses.
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September 2, 2010
FactCheck.org says White House and Democrats are distorting Social Security issue: "The president claims Republican leaders are as eager to 'privatize' Social Security as they are to repeal his health care law. That's not true."
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August 22, 2010
According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smackdown of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable.
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August 20, 2010
Many Washington insiders predict that any 2011 debate on Social Security will focus on the issues of benefit cuts and tax increases. In addition to raising the retirement age, which is now set to reach age 67 in 2027, specific cuts under consideration include lowering benefits and trimming annual cost-of-living increases.
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August 18, 2010
The private lives of young people are now so well documented on the internet that many will have to change their names on reaching adulthood, Google’s CEO has claimed.
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August 16, 2010
President Obama claimed that Republican leaders are pushing to make "privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda" should they regain control of the House and Senate. He said this is "right up there on their to-do list with repealing" parts of the new health care law. FactCheck.org finds the president’s claim to be mostly false.
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August 16, 2010
Older workers, who typically fared better than their younger counterparts in recessions, have been hit just as hard by layoffs this time around. As a result, the fraction of people 65 or older who are working has leveled off after a long period of growth. As of July, it stood at 15.9%, down from 16.3% in mid-2008.
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