Why Do Dems Want to Take Money Away From NAACP’s Poor Blacks who Have Medicare?

The national director of the NAACP recently scolded Dems for trying to cut back money that goes to Medicare Advantage.

40% of blacks on medicare use Medicare Advantage.

He was LIVID at Dems!!
Nancy,

How stupid do you have to be to lecture me instead of lecturing/calling the national director of the NAACP. He is the one who scolded Dems for trying to cut NEEDY blacks from Medicare Advantage. Duhhhh
Quit being hateful, Nancy.

Read on —>

In a March 14 letter to House members, Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP Washington, D.C., Bureau, wrote that MA plans “disproportionately provide coverage to low-income and racial and ethnic minority beneficiaries.” He added, “By providing more comprehensive benefits and lower cost-sharing than traditional Medicare,” MA plans help minorities “gain access to health care services that are critical to their long-term health and well-being”
A letter written by the NAACP stated that 40% of blacks on medicare use MA —->

http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/medicare_monitor/entries/2007/03/15/naacp_backs_medicare_advantage.html

Why Are Dems Trying to Hurt Millions of Poor Elderly People?

This is sort of ironic…

AARP and the NAACP are teaming up with Republicans to fight against Democrats’ desires to cut funding for Medicare Advantage programs.

The Dems say that the Medicare Advantage programs cost too much. Oddly, that money is helping the poor elderly and a lot of poor blacks.

There are over 200,000 elderly people in each of the following BLUE states that will be hurt if Dems cut Medicare Advantage — Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Jersey.

It’s funny to see the Dems try to convince the elderly and blacks to give up the help they are getting with medical bills.

Do you think Pelosi and Hillary and Kerry will tell the NAACP and AARP to get lost? I don’t.
It’s funny to see Libs on here argue against me when the NAACP and AARP are fighting against the Dems on this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t moan about me. Call up the NAACP and AARP.
Listen as the Director of the NAACP Scolds Dems for cutting funding to Medicare Advantage —>

“On behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), our nation’s oldest, largest, and most widely recognized grassroots civil rights organization, I would like to express our deep concern about efforts to reduce funding for the Medicare Advantage (MA) program.”

http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/medicare_monitor/entries/2007/03/15/naacp_backs_medicare_advantage.html

Why are republicans so upset about health care reform when?

it cost less than Bushes medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage bill ($1.2 trillion)?

it is less than 5% of the total health care cost in the US?

it is far less costly than Bushes tax cuts for the rich?

it is less costly that the Iraq war?

it is in theory paid for?

Do you believe that O’s tax increases will become law but his spending cuts won’t?

Obama says he will save $10 billion by capping payments to weathy farmers and billions more by scrapping other costly/inefficient farm programs. But don’t tell that to Rep. Collin C. Peterson, the Minn. Dem. who chairs the House Agriculture Committee. “We just finished the (latest five-year) farm bill last year, and I don’t think we’ll olpen it up” he informed the Washington Times. If O had really wanted to reform farm subsides, he would have taken a stand when it mattered and voted against that bill in the Senate. Instead, he supported the subsidizers.

For his other proposed cuts to take effect, O will have to make credible threats to veto appropriations bills that increase spending where he has called for decreases. ….. judging by the bloated builk of the stim. bill there is little reason for optimism that Obama-era Dems will fare better than their predecessors. IN FACT, Obama’s spending increases are LARGER THAN THE NEW REVENUE FROM HIS TAX HIKES. His deficit-reduction plan IS TO HOPE THAT THE ECONOMY IMPROVES.

What spending cuts we are likely to see are aren’t necessarily ones that we should cheer. O would fund his health-care plan in part by gutting Medicare Advantage, the program that lets seniors choose privately administered health-care plans that are paid for my Medicare. Eliminating Medicare Advantage has been a liberal priority for years, because it is a roadblock to INSTITUTING A SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM..

Obama promised to go through the budget “line by Line, ‘ looking for spending to cut. But in this task, as in others, he has sought the path of least resistance. The Left’s sacred cows appear to be safe.

In short, O’s budget raises taxes, increased spending and creates programs that are likely to put a drag on our economy, such as cap-and-trade.

The National Review
page 11
March 16, 2009

Do seniors feel stupid for voting for Obama now?

The government-subsidized benefits that seniors on Advantage plans receive — often at premiums lower than Medicare premiums — are real, and are legitimately in danger in some cases if Democrats succeed in their health care overhaul.

Medicare Advantage subsidies are on the chopping block to pay for the overhaul. Though there are marked differences between House and Senate versions, both bills would lower payments to private Medicare Advantage plans, which on average cost the government 14 percent more than traditional Medicare.

The harshest critics of the Advantage program say patients are exchanging hassle-free coverage for a plan with cheap perks that may ultimately deny them necessary treatment.

“They’re giving special benefits that are valuable,” said Mary Johnson, policy analyst for The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan, 1.2-million-member group. “But what people don’t understand are the trade-offs.”

Though AARP — which lends its name to a Medicare Advantage plan — and other senior advocacy groups support the Advantage cuts, it is likely that at least some seniors will see their premiums rise, benefits cut or plans close.