aarp has a cozy deal. non-profit. not taxed. makes huge profit on the healthcare industry. medi-gap. incidentally or not. the real issue is helped by obamacare it lobbied in support of. it looks fishy so it warrants investigation. issue two. the issue of transparency inside the obama administration, as president promised when he came in to be the most transparent presidents. he even received award for transparency this week at the white house, but closed to the pes and held behind closed doors. you have can t make this stuff up. one listen they may have been sensitive is reports that the department of homeland security has been slow and sometimes obstructionist in responding to freedom of information requests. right, which is what the administration said they would
makes huge profit on the healthcare industry. medi-gap. incidentally or not. the real issue is helped by obamacare it lobbied in support of. it looks fishy so it warrants investigation. issue two. the issue of transparency inside the obama administration, as president promised when he came in to be the most transparent presidents. he even received award for transparency this week at the white house, but closed to the pes and held behind closed doors. you have can t make this stuff up. one listen they may have been sensitive is reports that the department of homeland security has been slow and sometimes obstructionist in responding to freedom of information requests. right, which is what the administration said they would do in the first few days and president said he would not
listen, both sides have demagogued this shamelessly. i talked about last year republicans are medicare advantaged, demagogue that issue. you heard about death pannals. back in 59, 96 when we tackled medicare. we used the same numbers bill clinton was using the year before, for two years it was medi-scare. you republicans want to throw old ladies out in the street to give tax cuts to the rich. both sides have been burned. again, i circle back. chris christie in new jersey, andrew cuomo in new york, what they ve done on their level is no easier or no easier than what we re asking the president and republicans to do in washington. i mean, that s a road map, cuomo has a road map. christie has a road map. do you think washington may start listening? i think if we re going to really get at these issues we have to go after the private health insurers, we have to reform things, not just slash
and they rammed it down the throats of republicans. they passed things on a partisan basis and i think david axelrod is good acounting numbers and making arguments, and, served the president well that way. martha: at times the president was seen at called by any medi many people, arrogant and, because of how successful they were in the campaign had the right to get a lot of things pushed through and would probably say, we had big things we wanted to accomplish as you say but the president s style seems to be taking a turn away from the way he was perceived the first couple of years. well it has to, because he ran as someone who was above partisanship, right? this is the way he ran in 08 and you have david axelrod moving out, and he s moving to the campaign and robert gibbs being take taking on an outside consulting role and you have the architect at the 2008 campaign, coming inside the white house. and what it tells you is this is all about 2012, all about the
preferential treatment because of the sponsorship of the medical supplement plan. exempt from the healthcare reform regulations relossed this week. the white house says the claim that aarp getting a break is categorically untrue. medicare expert says exemption is early surprise of a complex law that will have many. you can count on every year for the next six or seven years as this unfolds that we ll discover provision that no one is in the legislation. on the board of the insurance company which aarp sponsors. that aarp isn t insurance company and isn t subjectbe to regulation and rate review and preexisting requirements and other regulation don t apply to the medi-gap-fillers since they have primary insurance. medi-gap plans should not fall under the federal rate