New GOP Health Care Website Fails To Mention Seniors
New GOP Health Care Website Fails To Mention Seniors
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN) held a press conference today to explain why progressive health reform would hurt seniors and to highlight the GOP’s “better solutions.” In an email yesterday, Boehner instructed readers to go to the GOP healthcare website “and you can see all of our proposals.”
The website ostensibly outlines the “Republican Plan” for “common-sense health care reforms” — but seniors are not addressed in the plans presented. In fact, there are no occurrences of the words “senior,” “elderly,” or “older Americans” at all. An archived version of the website can be found here.
Think Progress asked Pence to address the notable omission. Seemingly unaware of the failure, he merely instructed us to “stay tuned.” Watch it:
The GOP has been engaged in a months-long campaign to scare seniors about health reform. In August, Michael Steele tried to prey on seniors’ fears by rolling out the “Seniors Health Care Bill of Rights.” Now, it appears Republicans have simply forgotten about them.
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The GOP has scared all the “Seniors”, “elderly” and “older Americans” to death already.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:39 pmIn fact, there are no occurrences of the words “senior,” “elderly,” or “older Americans” at all
– - The GOP sees dead people.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:50 pmIs AARP the GOP’S new Acorn? Check out story on TPM.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/is-aarp-the-gops-new-acorn.php?ref=tn
October 28th, 2009 at 6:51 pm“Seemingly unaware of the failure, he merely instructed us to ’stay tuned.’ ”
lol The GOP is gift that keeps on giving. And the House Dems will be presenting the final touch of the healthcare bill real soon. Someone needs to ask the Party of No when they will get around to presenting a real healthcare reform plan. This is the same song that they sang back in April when the GOP presented their budgetless budget of the GOP’s starving for recovery plan. I’m still waiting on the budget numbers on that plan!
October 28th, 2009 at 6:53 pmIt’s quite simple really. The GOoPers know that anyone who still cares what they have to say is too effing stupid to actually check sources in order to compare their statements and their actions.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:57 pm“The GOP is going to fight for seniors”, says Pence.
Seniors with investments in Corporate Healthcare and Big Pharma?
October 28th, 2009 at 6:57 pmPence what a putz….”I’ll look that up and get back to ya”
October 28th, 2009 at 6:57 pmhar5125 says:
Is AARP the GOP’S new Acorn?
Not surprising. AARP is the propaganda wing of United Health Care.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:58 pmWell, under any GOP health care plan no one would live long enough to be considered elderly or senior.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:00 pmGenius, GOP. Just genius.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:01 pmGOP epic fail one more time, this time it’s the elderly.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:04 pmThese clowns were so busy trying to get some press, that they slapped this stupid website up and didn’t bother reading it themselves. More reason to never vote for those clowns again. Send that video to every senior.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:04 pmfrom the inbox, harry:
When I meet with my Senate colleagues to convince them to support health insurance reform with a public option, I need as many Americans as possible from all corners of our country standing with me.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN OUR PETITION FOR REFORM WITH A PUBLIC OPTION
http://harryreid.com/ee/index.php/publicoption
please…
October 28th, 2009 at 7:07 pmIt’s a shame that the GOP has been lying to seniors for years while relying on their voting bloc only to win elections. If senior citizens were fully aware of the fact that most Republican lawmakers would love to strip them of their Medicare and social security benefits and throw them to the wolves in the private healthcare sector no Republican would ever get elected again. Repubs constantly convince seniors that they are “fighting for them” while in all honesty they’re sole concern is gaining their vote.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:08 pmHealth insurance reform has been debated to death for the past four or five months nonstop. Why has the GOP “just now” decided to offer their ’solutions’ for reform on their website without being able to ‘discuss or even converse’ about their solutions? Seems to me it’s just a little late when, after all, the Dems will be ready to vote on their Bill soon!
October 28th, 2009 at 7:10 pmThe party that screamed “they’re gonna kill your grandma!” truly doesn’t give a goddamn for your grandma. They never have and never will. Social Security and Medicare had to be passed with the right-wing screaming like little babies. If things were completely up to these swine, we’d all be eating Soylent Green at this point.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:10 pmJoe Pence and Evan Bayh need to be run out of office. Will somebody please run against these two idiots? Even with my very limited time available I would do anything I could to make sure they had no chance for re-election.
Bah Bayh, Evan and Joe, we the people of Indiana are done with you. Give your personal public health care plans that you and your families have to someone that will appreciate them and want the same for the rest of our people. Both of you are incapable of representing our state properly.
They are both total LOSERS!!!!!!
October 28th, 2009 at 7:17 pmI thought this was pretty funny. Watch John Boehner act like a high school meathead and take a shot at Harry Reid while discussing healthcare with Neil cavuto.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=3287
October 28th, 2009 at 7:32 pmThere is a robust republican healthcare option for seniors:
Die Quickly-er.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:35 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Awesome. The republicans are going to give us some ideas that will resonate with the American people. Wolverines!1!1!1! Does everyone have plenty of popcorn?
October 28th, 2009 at 7:45 pmDeath Panels?
October 28th, 2009 at 7:46 pmOf course, they forgot to mention the seniors. The Regressives have never cared for them. Did they support Medicare in the 1960’s? Of course not.
In recent months, the Regressives were only pretending to be the saviors of the seniors. In reality, they don’t give the seniors a damn. As far as the Regressives are concerned, seniors are like toilet paper. They used them in August and September and then they just flushed them down the toilet in October.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:46 pmAwww…c’mon guys, use your imaginations! What else are we going to use to feed the swelling ranks of the poor?
October 28th, 2009 at 7:54 pmHow’s your website progressing, Mr. Steele?
October 28th, 2009 at 7:58 pmthis morning on STEPHANIE MILLER, they were talking about
October 28th, 2009 at 8:06 pma rep that michelle bachmann thinks is really great -
is it this mike pence guy?
IOKTGROSIYAR.
It’s ok to get rid of seniors if you’re a republican.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:07 pmAs usual the republicans have no idea what they’re doing and this is why anytime one of them gets in the White House…our nation is a mess afterward!
October 28th, 2009 at 8:12 pmSo, just where are all the goddamned “ideas” of the repiggies anyway?
There aren’t any ideas whatsoever.
They worship predatory corporatism.
Screw them, and screw the teabagger trash.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:16 pmkaty,
I think that Crazy Shelly is saving her love for Pete King from Ia. Here’s a disgusting little clip, though I do notice that they seem to be in an empty room. I’m hopeful that means sane Congresscritters simply leave when the real nutbags have the floor.
http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_13659698?source=rss&nclick_check=1
October 28th, 2009 at 8:21 pmAs someone who has been a “senior citizen” for several years (depending on how you count), I am offended by Republican lies and Republican policies. Actually, I have been offended by the GOP since 1968, when Nixon went and took in all the southern Democratic white racists and made then their New Republicans.
Republican-controlled corporations have been busy outsourcing American jobs since 1981, when Reagan was elected President. Republicans make things worse for the average American and Republicans make things worse for the average foreigner who lives in third world countries where the US imperially intervenes: Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Columbia…
October 28th, 2009 at 8:25 pmthat’s is, pete. thanks :-)
What does Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) think of Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)? Well, he’s nothing short of stunning.
[...]
“As it turns out,” Media Matters reported, “Bachmann has used the same phrase to describe King repeatedly over the last several months”
i couldn’t think of that word… stunning… king is a huge jerk…
she has horrible taste…
did you hear stephanie? what was the joke about MR. bachmann?
October 28th, 2009 at 8:38 pmFour out of five American doctors recommend a robust public option…with a percentage of these four out of five American doctors even wanting universal single-payer healthcare for all Americans, that is, Medicare for Everyone, across the board.
Apparently, a large majority of American doctors are fed up with having to deal with obstructionist and duplicitous health insurance companies.
So, the question is, why do we trust American doctors when they prescribe medication and treatments for what ails us, but for some reason, a certain segment of our society doesn’t want to listen to our nation’s doctors’ recommendations regarding fixing our nation’s healthcare system, in a way that would benefit doctors and patients alike?
I respect our nation’s doctors. Why do the Republicans, a few Blue Dog Democrats and some conservative independents hate them, refusing to listen to the medical recommendations of a majority of our nation’s doctors regarding their prescription for healing what ails our nation’s dysfuntional, often deadly and definitely life shortening current healthcare system?
October 28th, 2009 at 8:39 pmyeesh… that’s IT, pete. thanks…
October 28th, 2009 at 8:44 pmThe elderly should know better. THEY remember the Repugs arguments about Medicare and Social Security. If Repugs had their way, they would privatize or abolish both. This is a case of ‘I got mine, Screw you!’
October 28th, 2009 at 8:44 pmIt’s the GOP who are scaring the seniors while their health care reform ideas help mainly the big corporations and health insurance industry. Not us, not the elderly.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:44 pmGOP health care plan for the elderly: die now.
#2. Badmoodman says: … – – The GOP sees dead people
Not enough, apparently …
October 28th, 2009 at 8:46 pmMedicare is full of fraud and waste. My Grandmother had a triple bypass at the age of 84. Her doctor INSISTED she have a pap smear. She was furious. Quite rightly, she said it was a waste of time and money. It took quite a battle to get the doctor to back down. That was in 1999. I just wonder how many tests and procedures they make seniors go through just to bill the Government. Now we have much younger women who can’t even afford to pay for screening. This is immoral.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:50 pmconsidering it’s every repukelican’s wet dream to get rid of medicare it isn’t surprising they don’t mention “seniors”. their ideal solution would be forced euthanasia at retirement age since clearly, you’re no longer a productive member of society once you stop working.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:56 pmBozo@39, I’ve said that for years. The Repugs are more than willing to cast the elderly into the streets. But even the Repugs know they vote in record numbers. They use the old folks and the ignorant church goers. That is their base now. They have lost the young, gays and minorites. Man, what a miserable track record. What would ‘Ron ‘The Gipper’ think?
October 28th, 2009 at 9:00 pmWhere’s the birth certificate?
October 28th, 2009 at 9:05 pmLook over there, a democrat death panel!
(Indeed, my party doesn’t give a shit about seniors.)
October 28th, 2009 at 9:07 pm“Look over there, a democrat death panel!”
repukeliscum “code” for the public option.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:09 pmTHIS PANEL COULD GET A LOT MORE
INTERESTING TOMMORROW
Gawd, I hope so.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:10 pmThese empty suits are boring me to tears.
My party agrees with a workforce practice that clears out folks ages 45+ and replaces ‘em with green, cheap yuppies who don’t know squat. To cover up this practice we shift all the blame to democrats and keep doing what we accuse them of doing.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:14 pmRepiggies are just good people. They are the scumbags of this country.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:37 pmThat mistake cannot go without correction…Repiggies are NOT good people…
October 28th, 2009 at 9:40 pmThere is a GOP plan: Carousel. Renewal. Simple, logical, perfect.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:01 pmWe interrupt this program for a special message:
Seniors! We need your support on this very special legislative issue.
Wait! We don’t need no stinkin’ Seniors!
Oh, wait, we do to support our GOP wacko ideas, …. then, not so much.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled reruns of “Green Acres”.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:16 pmRepugs only think of themselves – seniors? poor? kids?
who cares — are there no poor houses?
From C&L:
In a conference call with reporters today, 3 Democratic Senators charged Republicans with obstructionism in all aspects of public policy, particularly stopping the Senate from passing a bill that would extend unemployment to millions of Americans, at a time when 7,000 Americans a day are losing their benefits.
Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) vowed to move forward with a motion to proceed on the unemployment bill, tied up with non-germane amendments…from Republicans that “amount to a political agenda” in Stabenow’s words, as soon as tomorrow. “The votes are there to pass this bill,” said Shaheen. Stabenow said that the bill could have passed a few weeks ago.
Asked by Mike Lillis of the Washington Independent, who has a writeup on this up, why the Senate cannot just plow forward on this bill, given their 60-vote majority in the Senate, Stabenow answered that “you can only do this one at a time.” She countered that Republicans have slow-walked practically all critical legislation since 2007, forcing cloture votes on ordinary measures to take up floor time and generally obstruct the legislation. Obstructionism in the Senate is not limited to filibusters, but also procedural actions when filibusters can be overcome. The result is a slow crawl that creates anxiety among Democrats and liberals and emboldens Republicans to claim that Democrats are running a “do-nothing” Congress. It’s a neat trick.
Will we see this in newspapers tomorrow? On TV news?
October 28th, 2009 at 10:32 pmIt was a con-call with reporters — we should.
It is almost 11Pm eastern time the GOP site STILL has nothing of substance.
Do they think a bunch of word smithing, pretty appearances and fear mongering will win over the public?
October 28th, 2009 at 10:57 pmkaty @ 13
signed.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:03 pm@13…
Petition signed.
Thank you.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:09 pmIt’s just more GOPshite and crap, all that the repiggies seem capable of these days.
GOPshite and crap = repiggie “policy” positions.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:22 pmPetition signed with immense pleasure.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:35 pmRe: katy @ 13:
I got the petition in my e-mail inbox this morning and signed it immediately.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:09 amHow progressive of the GOP.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:26 amFor the energy link on their site
they have an image of a nuclear plant cooling tower.
“It’s not easy, being green . . . “
What’s sad is the Democrats won’t be on the Sunday talk shows defending their positions and explaining why the GOP solutions won’t work. That is one thing I can give to the GOP, they tell their talking points every chance they get and will say things like “American overwhelmingly rejected the democrats solutions” even though there is no data to support that claim. Why don’t the Dems point that out?
* “We do need medical liability reform, etc…”
TORT is putting a price tag on granny. It says the family will only get $xxx if a doctor screws up and kills her. I agree we need reform but TORT is not the way to go and the Dems can really toss this one back in their faces.
* “Let’s also talk about letting families and businesses buy insurance across state lines.”
They are betting this will reduce rates in higher cost areas but it is more likely to raise rates in cheaper areas. The executives have proven they are profit driven and this will give them an excuse to raise the lower rates. Also, the reimbursement rates from a rural area won’t pay the bills for a NY doctor so I doubt if any NY doctors would accept the insurance with the low reimbursement rates. This means you will have a plan but no doctors in your area will accept it. This is not the silver bullet they make this out to be and the Democrats is not explaining that to the people.
* “All individuals should have access to coverage, regardless of preexisting conditions.”
This is in the Democrats plan, why won’t they support it.
* “Individuals, small businesses and other groups should be able to join together to get health insurance at lower prices, the same way large businesses and labor unions do.”
This will do nothing to reduce rates and no one is screaming this. My job is a major corporation and our benefits just went up again for next year. Unions get good rates because the company pays 100% of the tab in trade for lower raises. This just won’t reduce rates as long as the insurance execs are setting the prices with no competition.
* “We can provide assistance to those who still cannot access a doctor.”
How much will they give, in what form and to what income bracket? I am sure this was left ambiguous for a reason.
* “[I]nsurers should be able to offer incentives for wellness care and prevention – something particularly important to me. I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they’d simply made healthier choices earlier in life.”
No comment… Why don’t the Democrats insist the GOP send these ideas to the CBO to be scored. I think it will tell the story of why this isn’t reform if they do.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:49 amConservatives only care about zygotes and 104 year olds. They don’t care about anyone in between.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:32 amCall now and we’ll double your order of nothing, that’s twice the profit you’ve gotten in the past.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:59 amThe only thing wrong with the way Obama was elected is the same group that got together to pull it off, didn’t stay together and run the party of ‘nothing’ out of office.
It doesn’t mention seniors because the Repubs want to steal the Medicare funds through privatization.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:18 amI wish the GOP would run a website to scare Seniors about voting for totalitarian dictators like George W. Bush. I wish they would alert us to the total enslavement of the U.S. citizenry under the iron fist of the Federal Reserve Bankers.
Unfortunately, the Neocons are no different than the George Soros neoliberals. They are warring factions of the same political party, the party of oppression. This U.S. propaganda machine which rivals cold war Communist Russia and Nazi Germany, spoon feeds never ending lies to the people.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:23 pmThe GOP plan for seniors is to just put them out on the ice and let the polar bears get ‘em.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:43 pmIf our politicians are into “scaring” their constituents instead of advocating for them, then we need to put our support behind companies and organizations that will advocate for us. With regards to Medicare, I was fortunate to have a friend recommend PlanPrescriber.com to me. This company defines customer advocacy. If you are unable to find a Medicare plan that meets your needs and budget using their zip code search tool, you can speak to a customer service representative and they will work to find one for you, even if it is from a health insurance company outside their network. I use PlanPrescriber.com every year before I renew my current plan to see if there are better options for me. I hope you find them as helpful as I have.
October 30th, 2009 at 11:57 am