Opinion

What happens to seniors in health care reform?

Posted August 20, 2009 11:00 pm

Bob Gallo, Illinois Director of AARP, fails to address the many concerns of AARP membership on health care reform in his letter of Aug. 17. While espousing the benefits of change for recent college graduates and the uninsured, he meekly repeats the partisan talking points for those proponents of sweeping health care reform.

Seniors need an answer to this question - if a large portion of the change directed at 45 million uninsured will be paid for by Medicare "reform," a program that hardly even begins to adequately compensate health care providers for senior care, how will this be accomplished without dramatic cuts to senior health care benefits and services? Gallo is silent on this issue and demonstrates the naiveté and lack of integrity AARP has demonstrated on this debate. AARP members need and deserve representation, not partisan spin and denial.

Harlan Proehl

Geneva

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