A second letter to the editor

I wondered why AARP was not screaming against this travesty of a "health care" bill, especially when you read pages 425-430 of its 1000+ pages that deal directly with "end of life" issues. Now I see from their website that AARP actually supports the proposed government takeover of health care, which will effectively devastate the private relationship between doctors and patients with a bloated government bureaucracy as middleman. This is not just a "reform" but a total destruction of the world's best health care system.

The many ominous phrases in the bill, coupled with statements by the President himself (that a 100 year old patient shouldn't be given a pacemaker, even though she still had a lot of life left in her) as well as health policy advisor at the OMB Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother to Rahm (that doctors take the Hippocratic Oath "too seriously" and that Americans are "too enamored" with medical technology), point to a growing attitude of viewing senior citizens, who use a "disproportionate" percentage of health care benefits, as expendable members of society instead of valued parents and grandparents, cherished for their wisdom and prior sacrifices that have made this country great.

I'm not surprised, really. The President himself voted three times as a state senator to require babies that survived abortion be left to die. They too are expendable in this Administration's eyes. Life is no longer the most precious commodity to the "leaders" of this United States. Perhaps they should read the Declaration of Independence, especially the part about "unalienable rights" that begins with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

How dare the AARP claim to be "advocates" for the elderly and gladly take their money in dues and yet support this monstrosity of a "health care" bill that will ultimately treat them as trash to be discarded? The AARP is no better than the scammers that bilk trusting seniors out of their retirement funds!

I will never join AARP and encourage all the seniors in Kerrville to cancel their membership!

(signed) A disgusted 51 year old American citizen and cancer survivor, thanks to our present health care system.