When AARP sold us seniors out, I cancelled the mag and tore up my card. They still sent the mag, stuffed with all those prepaid post cards in it. I'd take them out and write in all capital letters, I DO NOT PATRONIZE AARP ADVERTISERS and drop them in the mail so the mail handlers could read it on it's way back from whence it came. I recently heard that AARP is in line for a big pay day when some of the new rules for Obama Care come into effect. Just one more reason to hate Obamacare. Here's some of the thing I experienced pesonally as they roll Obamacare out. My wife and I both had Advantage plans under Humana. She had the PPO and I the HMO. We paid a premium on hers and mine was free. This last year I have to pay a higher premium for the HMO than her PPO. We used the Humana Right Source RX mail system for meds. Generics were free, new meds our share was first $100 and then $110. This year we have a co-pay with most every medicine. I had open heart Surgery in Jan. After about a week in the hospital, I was transfered to a recovery medical center. All toll it was out 4 weeks b/4 I got home. At my first check up, my cardiologist gave me an RX to get into a cardio-rehab. It was no good, because a new rule setting up a deadline took effect in Jan and I missed the new dead line. (My cardioloist got this straightened out somehow, but the new rules are still on the books. So I've been going to cardiac rehab 2 or 3 times week. I started missing some when my wife's health failed. 2 weeks ago when I went to exercise I was told Humana is refusing to pay for my rehab because it took too long. Didn't matter much, I only had 3 more classes to complete the course, but my point is, Big Govt established new criteria to maintain coverage. So there's 3 things I personally know of that Obamacare has affected my life and I'm sure 10's of thousands of other seniors. But that's not all. Obama care has also set an age limit on heart surgery. No distinction beween men or women, no distinction on how healthy the patient is, just a date certain. At age 75 such operations as I just had will no longer be performed. The govt have been increasing premiums and reducing Medicare coverage slowly in hopes it will slide by public rancor. If I want coverage, I have been told, I can purchase AARP supplemental insurance. Rich Martin It is the duty of the Patriot to protect their country from its government! Thomas Paine With all the precedents set in the last 4 years, I don’t know why we need a Congress. Rich Martin Normally, when someone says Mormon, we think multiple-wives. This time, with a Mormon running for president, nary a word in the media. Why? It’s not because everyone knows Mormons now have but one wife; it is because Muslim’s can have FOUR wives! Shh! Don’t tell anyone. Isn’t it ironic that President Obama is so reveled in the nation's Black community, when the Luo tribe from which he came has a history of selling prisoners of rival African tribes to the Muslims who delivered them to the auction blocks in Europe and America? When replying to this message, plz cc: [email protected] to assure prompt reply. Mrs. Richard "Peggy" Martin (1935 - 2012) http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-irene-martin-peggy&pid=159081400&fhid=12241#fbLoggedOut http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/dfw/guestbook.aspx?n=margaret-martin&pid=159081400&sort=1 -- To join RichsRants, send email to: [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en
