‘There is a “small” change to medicare, half a trilion dollars riped out over the next ten years to fund Obamacare.’
This is not accurate. What is true is that the law implements policy changes that would result in slower growth in the cost of the program amounting to five hundred million dollars over time. The largest contribution to that change was a reduction in the subsidies being paid to private health insurers.
“AARPs supported it. I couldn’t believe it; it only hurt seniors, and they supported it. Just goes to show how these big organizations are all ideology, and don’t care a whit about their constituency.”
Wrong. AARP has many members age 50-65 who are not eligible for Medicare and can’t get insurance at all today, at any price, because of pre-existing conditions. They are definitely worried about all their members.