‘President traded senior health benefits for drug company support for his reelection’ -
BOHEMIA, NY, Jun 1 – The Association of Mature American Citizens today demanded a full Congressional investigation into charges that President Obama traded health benefits for older Americans in exchange for drug company support for his reelection.
“There is more than sufficient evidence, including tell-tale internal documents, that show the president’s men cut a ‘carrot-and-stick’ deal with Big Pharma for reelection support. If the pharmaceutical companies cooperated they might avoid higher taxes and reap a few important benefits, as well,” according to Dan Weber, president of AMAC.
“The benefits included a major policy change that would potentially scotch the ability of seniors to purchase cheaper prescription drugs from offshore sources.”
Weber said that the issue is not whether a deal was cut, but who cut the deal, the White House or Senate surrogates. He cited Texas Congressman Mike Burgess who said the documents describe “a sequential, planned, organized strategy for the White House to trade policy for politics.”
This is an important issue for AMAC, which represents more than 340,000 senior members, according to Weber. “If these accusations are true it could mean the administration is allowing the drug companies to reap millions in profits at the expense of older Americans.”
He urged Congress to conduct an investigation and hold hearings “to look into these serious allegations. The President must follow through on his promise for complete transparency of the actions of members of his administration. He owes it to the community of older Americans who pay for the majority of drugs sold in the country to divulge the truth”
NOTE TO EDITORS: Dan Weber is available for telephone interviews on this issue. Please contact John Grimaldi at 917-846-8485 or jpgrimaldi@verizon.net to set up a chat.
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If Obama gave incentives to the drug companies to approve the Obamacare, there should be an investigation and let it hit the News establishment ASAP. Fran
C. Barlow you’re right on the money! He is a plant and I believe wifey keeps him in line! They are so bad!
Did you ever wonder – are the Secret Service Men ever in a quandry? Probably not, they most likely received high raises too!
Let’s kick him out. Let’s all be vigilant this coming election as there will be a lots of fraud and cheating, worst than the previous election. All voters must have a picture ID that they are really that person voting. However, still there will be cheating but not as rampant.. God bless America! God bless us all! Yes, drop AARP.
It breaks my heart to see my beloved country Hi-Jacked by almost half of the country who don’t pay taxes. This land is ours because we have a covenent with God. Now He has been EXCLUDED from almost every part of our lives. This USED to be a place where there was freedom to either believe in something or someone or not. Now we aren’t allowed to choose our own lightbulbs or choose NOT to buy OBAMACARE. We have created a government so intrusive that it can tell you what kind of car, food or thought a person should have. We are halfway to creating a birth to grave nanny state. Good Gracious Charlie Brown, wake up before we don’t have a country anymore. It’s very close.
Did you know that under President George W Bush three million elderly Americans with incomes less than $10,000 per year became eligible to get their drugs for free? Bush had bad PR people who didn’t know how to tell the citizens all the good things he did.
I understand that Obama made a deal with the Drug companies to keep us from getting cheaper drugs from off shore and Canada. AMAC says they should be made available to older Americans.
And where is the same outrage over the Bush changes to the drug policies that caused a major spike in drug prices? Well, I’m all ears? In one TV expose’ the cost of some drugs seniors need had gone up 400% due to his policies.
I’m convinced Obama is a ‘Moslem plant’ with an agenda to take the U.S. down from the inside. He’s doing exactly that with everything he’s done since being elected. All his “past is sealed”. Never in the history of this great country have we ever had a President who was so ashamed or lying about his heritage & background that he would “seal all records”. The media has let him get away with it, which is beyond belief. In addition, he has allenated all our Foreign Allies. Moslems have patience & will wait until their timing is right to strike which they have proven with 9/11.
That was the plan from the beginning “cut America down to size”…read his books.
I do not forgive the Republican “Establishment” for giving us Dole and McClain, obviously “losers”.
We were forced to vote for the losers.
Too many so called “people”, such as Socialist-minded people (i.e. “journalists”), are making escuses for the conduct of those people (such as Obama) who constantly are doing un-American actions and things that impact unfavorably towards me, my family and the United States.
We are told by the “journalists” that Obama and the obama-loving people are “idealists”.
The actions of the locked-march-step “idealists” appear to be by humans who are not of this world.
It appears to me we have been invaded.
Folks you know its all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and he is getting it,hard to blame good voters who want him out but MONEY TALKS you know.Thanks to our favorite movie stars that are smoking the cheap stuff.
Obama was not the first one elected over a war hero, when the voters put a moslem in the whitehouse they get what they diserve
So many people continue to refer to the President as a communist or a socialist. He is neither. President Obama is a muslim thru and thru and has been at war with the United States for well before his election as President.. I truly pray that we will wake up before its too late but am afraid that it is too late already? Thank you AMAC for what you are doing and can only hope it’s not too little, too late. May God bless the United States!
Please pray that enough people will wake up to what a liar Obama is. Every word out of his mouth is a blatant lie. You can check all of his statements for yourself, and you will verify what I am saying. The United States should never have voted a socialist into office who promised HOPE & CHANGE with no explanation of what that means.
Elaine
This president is out to destroy this country. Look at his fruit
Obama and his band of Democrats doing what they do best dirty dealing as always .
to bad the rest of the country don’t no what the truth is about the Democrats and
all there lies .Obama is brain washing our collage kids . in to thinking that the Democrats
are creating jobs and the economy is great . all the Democrats have done is tax and spend
our tax dollars . on failed policies that cost the tax payers eighteen trillion dollars .our
great,great,grand children just might be able to pay off there debt .
God Bless AMAC for being the FIRST to jump all over this! Thank you, AMAC, for being ever watchful!
If it were’nt election year there would be thousands calling for impeachment. I pray that folks consider the last four years and vote based on the progress (or little of it) acheived in the last four.
Regarding other comments I read brought this reading to mind. Clarence Manion, the dean of the NOTRE
DAME law school from 1941-1952 was considered, by many, as one of the greatest thinkers in our country
at that time. A young man on the same flight as Dean Manion spoke with the dean about troubling times
in America in the early 1950″s. Whie listening to the young man, Dean Manion made some notes. As
the plane landed he got up, shook hands with the man. The man expressed what a privilege it was to talk
with a man of his intellect. Dean Manion smiled, thanked him, and handed him a slip of paper on which he
had written these words:
Man begins his existence in BONDAGE,
and rises from bondage through SPIRITUAL FAITH,
from spiritual faith to COURAGE,
from courage to LIBERTY,
from liberty to ABUNDANCE,
from abundance to SELFISHNESS,
from selfishness to COMPLACENCY,
from complacency to APATHY,
from apathy to DEPENDENCY,
from dependency back into BONDAGE. (This is Dean Manion’s adaptation from
The Decline and Fall of the Athenian
Republic by Alexander Fraser Tytler)
By this our only hope is a rise through SPIRITUAL FAITH. The problem I see here is many of the Pastors in
our country today have lost the Moral Courage to teach these spiritual truths (starting with faith alone in Christ
alone…no human works) because it might offend some of their church members. We need Pastors that keep
their eyes on God not on men (their congregation). We need to learn these truths and speak them to others
and teach them to our children.
Amen, brother! Absolutely true and how DESPERATELY the people of this country need to hear it…(of course if we
had spread the word starting back at that time, it could have made a lot of difference). When I was in high school, as
recently as 1972, we had a course called Americanism vs. Communism which of course taught the benefits of our
system, and the problems of theirs. But when we look at each one closer, the truth becomes apparent…each one
has the potential to do much good, and also great harm. Because the battle really begins inside our hearts. Put God
first, then others, then…yourself last. That’s where we have to start.
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Amen to that. This president has done nothing but brought shame to our country, and if something is not done, we will be in bondage again. preacher, teachers, and christians all should have the commitment to stand up for God and Country.
can’t we just throw this whole administration in the dumpster???
@ jack mancusi: from your mouth to God’s ear. Yes, I said it, GOD!!
GREED, DESIRE for POWER and MORE!!!!
My wife and I love Disney World and visit it annually. We enjoy the hall of presidents and have noticed that they have the current White House Occupant already in place among the former Presidents. I am aware that the Disney leadership is liberally oriented but would not be surprised to see a figure of Goofy in place of the current representative of this administration after this next election.
Goofy is greater than this. What did Goofy do to you? Poor Goofy, we apologize profusely!
Hi Frank,
You have that right,but lets not insult GOOFY !!
The entire process by which ObamaCare was pushed into law demonstrates, with back room deals and “special” favors, the utter contempt this administration has for the American people. All these deals were done simply to position the government to eventually be sole provider of healthcare available to the American public under the terms it deems appropriate.
Every one of these companies or organizations that thought their “special deal” would grant them favored status down the road are in for a rude awakening. This administration will throw every one fo them under the bus, one by one, as it no longer needs their willing support to achieve the ultimate goal.
This administration has not been transparent about anything! If there is an underhanded way to get what he wants, that’s the way it will be done. This egotistical, narcissist needs to be put in his place and that’s not endangering a whole country!!!
I think Ofufu will be history come the election…
Unless he steals it again like the last one–over 200,000 fraudulent votes that were known about.
If Ofufu isn’t ousted, you can kiss this country goodbye.
The sorry part of all of this is, the people that understand economics and what is actually going on with thie President are not the majority of the people, the ones that will vote for him will be the ones that are receiving everything from the Governemt and don’t mind doing so, hopefully there will be enough of the rest of us to get him OUT of office.
Where was AARP when this deal was going down with Big Pharma?????
AARP was right there betraying all the Seniors! They were in the pocket of OBAMA and CO. They sold out and betrayed their Senior members for future monetary gain for the executives in secret agreements. They will be the single payer insurance when ObamaCare is implemented. Their reward will be billions of dollars and control. That is why so many Seniors have dropped their membership in AARP and switched to AMAC, a Senior group which honestly represents the health needs of the Seniors. Since most Seniors are working to repeal ObmaCare, AARP will be toast. AARP was never a friend to Seniors! Serves them right! I call it Karma…what goes around comes around. IMHO
AARP was right beside the Obama during the whole deal!
Anniecav,Handing out MILLIONS to Obama to make BILLIONS off Obamas health plan of course
I never liked OBAMA because I don’t trust a trust a president that, during his campaign, refused to profess his religious faith
This Marxist President and his Progressive (Communist) Democrats must be voted out of office or this great Country will be in deep trouble.
The US does not have a President.
That is a big Amen
It will NOT be the first time in history that an incumbent president was not elected to a seconder term. George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford were did not get re-elected for four more years. AND this poor excuse, Barry Soetoro, certainly does not deserve a second term. I don’t think he deserved a first term. Most intelligent people in this great nation of ours would question why anybody running for our President wouldn’t produce a certified birth certificate. Something is just not right with this guy. I didn’t vote for him. But then John Kennedy was the only democrat I ever voted for.
It is my belief the American people are smart enought not to re-elect Obama. Come on folks, lets get him out of the White House!
Yes I agree, but the dark forces like Holder will be working tireless with all the illegals to make sure they vote for Obama
A number of the American people are smart Betty, however not enough to vote this guy out of office. It will be another land slide, and Obama is going to be the big winner. Tough times will be coming if he wins. The smart prognosticators are already saying Obama is going to win, and one of those prognosticators is the stock market. In the past two weeks it has lost everything it gained this year. When Obama actually wins, it will plunge, and those of us who have our savings therein, will be broke. I cannot convince my wife to pull ours, pay the taxes and be happy with what we have. I know one rich person who sold all his real estate and everything else he has and has moved to another country. Not going to name that country for fear of flooding it like Mexicans do the USA. Good luck to us all.
I just joined the AMAC along with my spouse because of this type of action I was hoping for. I dropped the AARP years ago. GO AMAC. I recommend all AARP members so what I did, Join AMAC instead.
Every time you see a postage paid envelop for AARP information, Put some of your trash in it and mail it to them.
It will cost them almost a dollar. Put a note in it saying that you are angry about how they sold out senior citizens.
Don’t put in any traceable information.
@ Evangeline: I do just that and I tell others to do it as well. Many of my friends do so. Keep the truth going via word-of-mouth and email and we may have a glimmer of real HOPE.
I recall Obama telling us his presidency would be the first really transparent one given the tools of things like the internet. He said he would post everything that came across his desk for us al to see and write our representatives on. I have yet to see that happen even once. Lies abide.
Its time for people to stand up and be heard and vote these greedy free loaders out.
The really frightening thing about the Obama presidency is that the AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTED HIM INTO OFFICE. The evidence was crystal clear about who he was and what he believes in. This is how we lose our freedom : an uninformed(by choice), apathetic, racially myopic citizenry.
Absolutely correct, Colleen! The Bible refers to it as being “willfully ignorant”, and this is one way that God judges nations.
We really do need change.
I’m so sick of hearing about how the big wigs in Washington who make houndreds of thousands of dollars a year cut deals with big corp. so there CEO’s can keep making millions of dollars a year at the expence of us older people whom made the mistake and elected them to office to serve we the people. When will it stop, When we vote them out of office. They don’t care about the elderly people of America. Lets make a change and vote them out.
IF, & I’m not saying they are or Not, these allegations are in fact true it’s just one more way this entire administration has FAILED in the eyes of the people who put them in office. He should be held accountable for anything done by his people whether he knows about it or not as he is the Commander in Chief of this country. I beleive he is running scared of this election as it may be the first time in history this country does not re-elect the current President. It appears to me that whoever has the most money controls the country NOT the people who put the administration in office. I’ve done several polls, at least an even 12, which ask if you would return Mr. Obama to this high office. Let me say that the lowest percentage that WOULD NOT vote to return him was 65% so IF he got in that would IMMEDIATELY tell me that
it was due to big money not the peoples support. HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE!!!
And on another front Balance the Budget. Every single individual, family, town, city, County, State & Business needs to Balance Their Budgets to remain in Business. Why does the COUNTRY, which is essentially one large business, Not Balance Theirs, make everybody else pay for their over the top outrageous spending? The Deficet should NEVER have been allowed to get to the point it is now.
This is not that much of a surprize this adminstration has a track record of it being avaiable to being BOUGHT.
And Berry Is RIGHT.