SCOTUS: OBAMACARE: HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH

(Washington, DC) – Statement today by Jim Martin, Chairman of the 60 Plus Association, on the occasion of the “Hands Off My Health Care Rally” on Capitol Hill, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, 60 Plus, and others.

  • My name is Jim Martin, I’m Chairman of the 60 Plus Association representing 7.1 million senior citizen supporters—seasoned-citizens we’ve been called. And we’re begging SCOTUS, the Supreme Court of the United States, please rule, for our future health, and theirs too, that Obamacare is unconstitutional, resulting in seniors enjoying better health as they move into their Golden Years, including six current members of the Court already 60 Plus (excluding Chief Justice John Roberts, and Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan  who are not yet 60 Plus, but we look forward to adding them to our ranks!).
  • For 20 years the 60 Plus Association has been the conservative alternative to the liberal AARP—you  know, the group that put their arms around the President and gave him political cover by endorsing Obamacare—the Un-Affordable Care Act.
  • The AARP touts Harry Belafonte, a great entertainer, but so far to the left he makes President Obama look conservative while at 60 Plus our spokesman is another great entertainer, Pat Boone, a friend of President Reagan.
  • Now the AARP—the Association Against Retired Persons—says it is on a listening tour, but did they listen to the voice of tens of millions of seniors who said “NO—we don’t want Obamacare”?
  • Don’t believe it! They turned their hearing aids off and they turned their backs. Their reward? Getting an Obamacare waiver.
  • Well Mr. President, I’m here today to demand you give America’s seniors the same treatment–in fact give ALL Americans a lifetime waiver from Obamacare!
  • The people are speaking loud and clear, and thanks to YOUR efforts, Obamacare is on life support. It’s bad medicine—hazardous to our health. Obamacare is the biggest threat to our health ever enacted. IPAB, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, is an unelected, unaccountable, board of 15 bureaucrats making unconstitutional decisions affecting the health of the elderly.
  • I’d like to remind you seniors out there, two years ago Nancy Pelosi called you un-American for opposing this bill, elderly men and women, many of whom fought on distant battle fields. Un-American? That’s when 60 Plus predicted there would be a SENIOR CITIZEN TSUNAMI that would come ashore, taking dozens of pro-Obamacare legislators with them.
  • That’s exactly what happened—more than 63 Democrats were given a one-way ticket home.
  • 2012 will be no different, a second SENIOR CITIZEN TSUNAMI is on its way, with dozens more Obamacare supporters in Congress about to get a one way ticket back home—including one noteworthy person heading back to Chicago!
  • So fellow patriots, the 60 Plus Association salutes you for your fight on behalf of our liberties and future generations.
  • Can we repeal Obamacare?  YES. WE. CAN!! YES. WE. WILL!!

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