Topic: AARP

August 11, 2009

Lying in Portsmouth: AARP supports health care bill … oh, and it won’t cut Medicare benefits

President Obama suggested today that the AARP has endorsed his health care proposals, a charge the organization spent the day before denying.

July 28, 2009

‘Nobody is talking about reducing Medicare benefits’ except Obama

When asked about whether his health care plan would cut Medicare benefits during the AARP town hall, President Obama said, “Nobody is talking about reducing Medicare benefits,” when, in June, the president outlined his cuts to the program.

Repeating the $6,000 health care lie

President Obama again says the U.S. spends $6,000 more per person on health care than other industrialized nations, when the widest gap is $3,778.

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