GOP Health Care Website Fails To Mention Senior Citizens

Think Progress:

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."

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Comments

[Helen65]

11:14 AM on 10/30/2009

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[ReedYoung]

02:14 AM on 10/30/2009

Does it keep their dirty gop hands of my medical decisio by creating the public health care option everybody wants?

http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=SponsoredBills.HealthCareFreedomAct

(scroll to bottom, very funny that such an "important" gop can't afford a copy editor)

[OlongapoEd]

08:25 PM on 10/29/2009

The Gopers probably figure that if they just ignore senior citizens, they will conveniently d-i-e.

[S E Martin]

06:53 PM on 10/29/2009

Wow. His Bull $ h it was so transparent that the birds who flew into didn't even know what they just hit.

[expired]

05:36 PM on 10/29/2009

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[MmeFlutterbye]

02:44 PM on 10/29/2009

The AARP is nothing but an insurance company. I resigned my membership when they supported the "donut hole" pharmacy insurance. but they still send me their ads for their insurance programs (junk mail). A damned waste of trees in my estimation. A real con!

[AllShookUp]

02:37 PM on 10/29/2009

Ask your pharmacist if the GOP Is right for you. Tell your doctor immediately if you have any of these symptoms:

"NO" tourettes
Spinning lies and misinformation
Lack of bipartisanship
Latent hypocrisy
Obstructionism
Dithering
Whining when things don't go their way
Loss of seats in House, Senate and White House
Occasional outbreaks of crocodile tears

If any of these symptoms persist or worsen, notify your your doctor promptly. Side effects include filibuster and NO votes on important legislation.

Notify your doctor promptly if your filibuster lasts for more than 4 hours, as this may indicate a loss of compassion and empathy for those who have no healthcare.

[indi1216]

02:05 PM on 10/29/2009

opps! I guess they hate to admit it, PUBLIC OPTION MEDICARE WORKS.

[taddles]

04:53 PM on 10/29/2009

Apparently works really well since they have absolutely no plan to change it in any way. They have no plan to change the VA either, another Government run socialized medical care plan.

[LadyTee]

06:27 PM on 10/29/2009

taddles, what would you suggest they replace Medicare with? Apparently, you haven't reached the age to receive it. I'm on Medicare and I know it works well along with supplemental insurance. However, if you know someone who is on it, please ask him/her to explain the benefits of Medicare, or better yet, Google it and get informed.

[doneflyin]

01:58 PM on 10/29/2009

Pence was on the TeeVee this morning crying like a little girl about the "Pelosi Health Care Bill.
Oh it will be awful, just awful. The end of civilization as we know it

The way he was carrying on I figure it must be pretty good. Watch for the Republicans now to all go on and on and on about the dreaded "Pelosi Bill."

[teepeeyoyo]

01:54 PM on 10/29/2009

To the GOP: You're doing a great job at being tone deaf, please continue to do so, so we can get rid of you. Maybe you'll hear a little better as you clean out your offices.

[bgofca]

01:21 PM on 10/29/2009

pence is a real creep.. I can't believe my old district voted him in and an honorable man like Lee Hamilton
(also known for the 9-11 report) was voted out. I worked on Congressman Hamiltons' campaign as a teen and voted for him many times before I moved to a more progressive state. The 9th district of Indiana truly made a dumb mistake going for this ridiculous man. He can't even lie properly. The opposite of progressive is regressive. I hope this is the last term he serves. He needs to be replaced with someone who will actually work for people that don't own coorporations, insurance companies, war profiting companies, etc.

[Donnat]

01:20 PM on 10/29/2009

The Party of No's Senior Care - always in the "prototype" stage, much like GM's electric vehicles.

[Vyvjala]

01:03 PM on 10/29/2009

Pence was interviewed on msNBC's Dr. Nancy program this morning bad mouthing the current healthcare proposal and then was asked about his current healthcare coverage. Pence went on to explain the numerous choices of plans and doctors when Dr. Nancy asked him why can't a public plan be designed like the one that covers him and thousands of other federal employees. Pence's hypocritcal answer was absolutely pathetic.

[chedet]

02:22 PM on 10/30/2009

he should have been answer it honestly and say "too bad suckers, you poor people don't deserve it!"

[Suzanne525]

12:37 PM on 10/29/2009

Quite telling is Pence's statement that "we will be proposing ideas" on healthcare and posting them.

"Will be"??? WTH have they been doing during all this debate?

Are they really, really too st_up_id to have known on Nov. 5, 2008 that health care reform would be on the agenda? If they cared about people, they would have worked on it.

Like always, they have nothing. Nothing. No plans, no brains, no empathy.

[JohnLinus]

12:31 PM on 10/29/2009

Democrats and GOP lawmakers fails to follow Constitution.

[kareemachan]

02:52 PM on 10/30/2009

Null content, baka comment. It's really nice when people actually post on-topic. And if you feel that this does tie into the discussion, you're gonna have to say more than that. If you're not going to, shoo!