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"Harry Hope" |
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19 Nov 2003 09:22:15 PM |
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Head of AARP is a Republican political PR hack. |
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/11/ana03307.html
November 19, 2003
Former Ad Agency Exec Who Heads AARP Wrote Preface To Gingrich Book On
Healthcare:
Novelli Lavishly Praised Healthcare Ideas Of Discredited Former House
Speaker And Favorite Wing Nut
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Seniors and Democrats were stunned when the AARP announced its support
of the Trojan Horse Republican Medicare bill.
The AARP message board is burning up with rage against the AARP and
its CEO, William D. Novelli, the former public relations whiz kid.
Seniors appear to be canceling their memberships and calling for heads
to roll at AARP headquarters.
http://community.aarp.org/rp-legislative/start
But Novelli defiantly dismissed membership outrage at his alliance
with the Republicans, who see the proposed Medicare bill as the first
step in the privatization and dismantling of the senior health
insurance program.
In response to [Senator Tom] Daschle's tart prediction that he
[Novelli] would face a revolt within his organization over this bill,
Novelli said, 'There's not going to be a revolt within AARP. There's
going to be a problem if Congress fails to pass this legislation.'"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/11/17/national1558EST0675.DTL
Mr. Novelli claims he has his AARP seniors in the bag for the GOP.
But is being an enthusiastic supporter of Newt Gingrich's wing nut
healthcare plan for America doing the best for seniors?
Novelli is such a fan of Gingrich that he wrote a preface to Newt's
babbling right wing treatise on how to destroy the healthcare safety
net for seniors and other Americans: "Saving Lives & Saving Money."
This is what Novelli said in praise of Gingrich's book:
Saving Lives & Saving Money
Preface By William D. Novelli
Executive Director and CEO
AARP
Writing about health and health care is a big job. Writing about
transforming the entire American healthcare system is even more
daunting. In Saving Lives and Saving Money, Newt Gingrich has done an
admirable job of both. He has clearly and comprehensively described
the problems with our current healthcare system, explained why it
cannot continue to stagger along, and most importantly, offered his
own ideas about how to transform our current mess into a 21st century
system that saves lives and money.
Gingrich believes that our healthcare system is beyond reform -- that
it needs to be transformed into something totally different than it is
today. "Reforming," Newt says, is the process of trying to make the
current pattern work. "Transforming" is about developing new and very
different patterns.
Volumes have been written about the problems with our healthcare
system, and hundreds (if not thousands) of conferences are held every
year with experts discussing how addressing a specific piece of the
problem will improve the system. Yet, with all the talking and
tinkering, costs continue to rise while quality care continues to
decrease.
Newt Gingrich has never been one to tinker. He is a big idea person,
and moreover, he has the ability to link big ideas into something even
larger still. He believes it is time to focus the healthcare debate
where it truly belongs -- on people's health. That is what Gingrich
does in Saving Lives and Saving Money. The gap between the health and
healthcare we should have and what we actually have is appallingly
huge, and will only get larger if we don't transform the system. And,
in the process of improving our health, the nation can also save
billions of dollars if we make substantial changes in the way we
practice health and health care.
Gingrich is proposing nothing less than dramatically changing one of
the largest segments of our economy. His ideas for transforming the
system are not academic theories. They are based on real-life examples
of entrepreneurial changes people are making across the healthcare
system throughout the country, and he offers specific examples to back
up his claims and allow people to find out more.
Transformation of America's healthcare system is one of the biggest
challenges facing our nation. In 2011, the first members of the 76
million baby boomer generation will begin turning 65. This will have a
dramatic and lasting impact on our health-care system simply because
older people tend to use healthcare more. Transformation does not
happen overnight. As Gingrich points out, it took us twenty years to
transform our welfare system. We don't have twenty years to get our
healthcare system in order. We have to start work on it now.
Newt's ideas are influencing how we at AARP are thinking about our
national role in health promotion and disease prevention and in our
advocating for system change. [Bolding added by BuzzFlash] He writes:
"The healthcare debate is not about Democrats and Republicans. It's
not about liberals and conservatives. The health debate is about your
life and the lives of your family. The healthcare debate is about your
money and your family's money." I would only add, it's also about your
future...and America's.
Whatever your views and your state of health, you will find Saving
Lives and Saving Money bold, enlightening, and provocative. While you
may not agree with all of Gingrich's ideas, this book will engage you
in thinking about -- and probably acting on -- health and healthcare.
That's important, because as he observes, transforming our nation's
healthcare system will take all of us to make it happen. And, indeed,
it must happen. Our health, our families, and our futures depend on
it.
William D. Novelli
Executive Director and CEO AARP
Newt liked Novelli's slobbering praise so much that he highlights it
on his "transformational" healthcare (to feed business to his
consulting firm) website. [LINK]
Like all Republican positioning, Gingrich uses Orwellian tactics in
his crusade to enrich the insurance companies and shaft the average
American, calling his site:
"Center for Health Transformation: Better Health, Lower Cost."
Who is Gingrich's ally in putting a knife in the back of American
seniors?
Why it's William Novelli, CEO of AARP.
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Harry
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