Seniors Group Launches Multi-Million "No Cuts" Campaign for Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid

[jtown1123]

It's called the "No Cuts Campaign."

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare kicked off its nation-wide multi-million campaign today to stop the Super Committee and Congress from cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Here is their campaign site: http://www.ncpssm.org/nocuts/index.htm

They are doing events in highly contested Congressional districts as well as other markets so keep keep checking back for events in your area.

Right now they are running these mobile billboards around Capitol Hill and D.C.:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nocutscampaign/6170078340/in/photostream

[madfloridian]

1. Kicked and recommended. Thanks.

:hi:

[jtown1123]

2. Anytime!

[ProSense]

3. Here is the group's statement on the President's proposal

The Good News and Bad News in the President's Deficit Plan

"For too long, Washington's fiscal hawks have co-opted the deficit conversation suggesting the only way to restore our nation's fiscal balance is to slash Social Security and Medicare. At the same time many of these

"safety net" opponents were signing pledges to protect tax breaks for millionaires and corporations. That is not fiscal responsibility. Our National Committee members understand this and, thankfully so does our President. The White House has given us a desperately needed reality check offering a deficit plan providing the common-sense balance most Americans know is necessary. President Obama has flatly rejected conservatives' calls to cut Social Security since this program did not create our deficit crisis. In fact, Social Security has a surplus of $2.6 trillion in its trust fund and can pay full benefits for at least 25 more years. Added to that good news is that the President will not recommend raising Medicare's eligibility age - safeguarding healthcare access for millions of future retirees.

Unfortunately, the President's other proposals on Medicare are more of a mixed bag offering increased cost-shifting to seniors rather than continuing the work begun with healthcare reform. Medicare is affected by the same rising costs experienced by the rest of our healthcare system. We need to tackle the true problem, not just pass those costs on to seniors. That's why the National Committee supported health care reform as the best way to bring spending under control, though cost savings have not yet been fully realized since many provisions are still being implemented. Raising premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket costs for seniors doesn't address the real challenge facing our nation but merely shifts costs to retirees who are losing an increasing share of their Social Security checks."...Max Richtman, President/CEO

[Dragonfli]

4. K&R looks like the people will have to fight to protect those programs from both sides now

There was a time when we had a party to protect us, but we must carry the ball for them until they become a party of the people again.

[jtown1123]

6. Agreed. It's a shame this is even a fight. n/t

[Overseas]

5. K&R.

[chill_wind]

7. K & R.

Good to see.

[butterfly77]

8. K&R..

[madfloridian]

9. Wonder why this is not getting more kicks and recs? Hmmm

Hey, I for one don't mind sharing sacrifices with billionaires...do you??

[bananas]

10. Oct. 1st: 11.1% rate slash will be applied to Medicare payments to nursing home facilities.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1982949

[dgibby]

11. Thanks for posting.

Big K&R!

I contacted them, asked them to provide links so it would be easy to "share" info on FB and Twitter in order to get the word out.

[Better Believe It]

12. Kicked

[leftstreet]

13. Thi$ i$ a $ham organization

No different than tv preachers extracting $ from vulnerable viewers

Committee on Ways and Means
U.S. House of Representatives
1102 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

RE: Hearing Date: July 26, 2001 Subject: Misleading Mailings Targeted to Seniors

For the written record of the hearing held by the Subcommittee on Social Security, I wish to call the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM) to the attention of the Subcommittee.

Recently the Attorneys General of a number of States entered into a settlement agreement with the Publishers Clearing House Corp. to regulate and restrict the use of misleading solicitations which prey upon confused and frail elders who believe that by purchasing products from Publishers Clearing House they increase their chances of winning a sweepstakes prize. What Publishers Clearing House has done to appeal to greed and the gaming instinct NCPSSM has done in the same manner in their appeals to fear that frail elders have of losing Social Security benefits.

I "joined" NCPSSM several years ago to see what kind of mailings I would receive. The low "membership" fee of $10 encourages people to sign up. Soon afterward, although I never made another contribution to NCPSSM, I began to receive a barrage of mailings with dire warnings from former SSA Commissioner Martha McSteen, spokesperson for Max Richtman, the real head of NCPSSM, implying that without financial support to lobby Congress, continued SSA benefit payments were in doubt. More and more impressive envelopes continued to arrive at my home, each one containing cleverly contrived "personalized" mass mailings strongly urging extra contributions to assist in preserving elders’ SSA and Medicare benefits.


http://waysandmeans.house.gov/legacy/socsec/107cong/7-26-01/records/thoms.htm{/div]