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Survey Says: Obamacare FailingJim Martin: “Any politician who keeps faith with this health care has lost all credibility.”(Alexandria, Virginia) – Attention in Washington continues to build around a report issued last month, the annual Towers Watson survey of health plans, that shows in clear and unarguable detail the damage that Obamacare is doing to America’s health care system. Still far from fully implemented, the President’s health care bill continues to have a strong negative effect on the lives of most Americans, by raising costs, burdening businesses with more mandates and killing jobs. 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the nation’s largest conservative seniors organization with over 7.1 million senior supporters, issued the following statement regarding the report: April 19, 2012 | Read more… Secretary Sibelius: Americans Who Pay your Salary are Not ‘the Enemy’Jim Martin: “Most Americans oppose Obmacare, are a majority of Americans ‘the enemy’?”(Alexandria, Virginia) – Appearing before Al Sharpton’s American Action Network last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius gave a campaign speech supporting President Obama’s health care law, telling the gathering, “The enemy is at the door and we know that they would like to dismantle these initiatives,” prompting a response from 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the nation’s largest conservative seniors organization with over 7.1 million senior supporters. April 16, 2012 | Read more… America Crack Open Your Piggy Banks – Obamacare Costs Revealed60 Plus’s Jim Martin: “Can the FTC investigate a President for serial false advertising?”
(Alexandria, Virginia) – Another promise from Obamacare bites the dust with the release of a new report that finds that the President’s health care law will add $340 billion to our nation’s deficit, which currently run at over $1 trillion per year. Authored by Charles Blahous, a former Bush Administration official appointed by President Obama to serve as a trustee for Medicare and Social Security, the 52-page report outlines how actual costs of Obamacare will add to our national debt, despite Obama’s promise that his health care law would lower deficits. April 10, 2012 | Read more… India Decision Could Have Devastating Impact on Seniors’ MedicineCompulsory drug patents undermine progress in new medicines, harm the sick, and kill our economic engine.(Alexandria, VA) — The 60 Plus Association announced today its opposition, in the strongest of terms, to a decision by the Controller of General Patents in India to issue a compulsory license at the request of the Indian company Natco, to allow otherwise infringing manufacturing and sale of the anti-cancer drug Nexavar, a product created and sold by Bayer. Compulsory licenses can be granted by a nation in cases of extreme need or emergency to produce a patented drug. April 4, 2012 | Read more… Stop Lying to the Elderly(Alexandria, Virginia) – 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the nation’s largest conservative seniors organization with over 7.1 million senior supporters, today lashed back at President Obama for comments he made regarding the budget blueprint of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), which passed the House last week 228 to 191. April 4, 2012 | Read more… FTC Ruling Harms SeniorsPharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Merger Will Mean Higher Prices, Fewer Pharmacy Choices(Alexandria, VA) — The 60 Plus Association (60 Plus) announced today that it strongly disagrees with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision allowing the proposed merger between Express Scripts, Inc. (ESI) and Medco Health Solutions, two pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that administer prescription benefits for many health plans, including some Medicare Part D plans. 60 Plus is a non-partisan seniors advocacy group, with over 7.1 million supporters. April 4, 2012 | Read more… Rep. McKinley Off-base with Ryan Budget Medicare Comments(Alexandria, Virginia) — U.S. Representative David McKinley (R-WV) received a scolding today from 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the nation’s largest conservative seniors organization with over 7.1 million senior supporters, for comments and characterizations McKinley made in his vote against the budget of House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), saying he could not support it, for among other reasons, due to the Ryan’s plans ‘drastic cuts’ in Medicare. March 30, 2012 | Read more… |
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