AARP in Cahoots with Corporate Medicare Leeches

The 2003 Bush Republican drug plan (with the “donut” hole of unsupported time. Why “donut” and not “bullet” hole?) was popular with corporations more than with confused citizens. It didn’t have quite enough support in congress and was going to fail. AARP was lobbied from opposition to support and it barely passed.

Time passes, and AARP solicits everyone for membership. It’s not worth it.

Later it became apparent why they went for that flawed drug plan. Medicare is an impractical behemoth that is privately distributed and a source of profit for the countless “health” companies who spend fortunes promoting their own Medicare “advantage” (not) plans that are intentionally confusing. Many of them try to sound like government entities, some sound as if they are required, and…

Some have the AARP logo on them, with fine print disclaimers that sometimes aren’t even an endorsement! The money grubbers are raking it in at the expense of those they were supposed to help!

Medicare itself separates hospital support from doctor and drug support. Who’s that helping?

The moral of the story is that morality is practical. Humans just can’t not help those who need health care. If we were true to our values, everyone would have health care. We’re about the only nation without it. With US it would be planetary. Let’s call it universal in case we’re visited by space aliens who hurt themselves landing or something. We wouldn’t want them to think we’re uncivilized, would we?

We’d really save tons of waste, inconvenience and heartache.

The status quo will disapprove and lie and try to preserve inequality. That’s to be expected because they have power poisoning. So screw ‘em.

Thank you for your time.