Tag Archives: 60 Plus Association

Health Care Spin — Again

Posted on October 28, 2010

As the election draws near, some conservative groups are making ever-wilder claims about the new health care law: An elderly man in a Crossroads GPS ad makes the death-panel-esque claim that the law “threatens our lives.” The 60 Plus Association …
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60 Plus Association

Posted on October 12, 2010

Republican-leaning group that calls itself “the conservative alternative” to AARP.
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Misleading Onslaught by 60 Plus

Posted on September 17, 2010

The conservative 60 Plus Association has launched a flurry of ads against 16 Democrats, many of them in tight House races. The group is spending more than $5 million – from donors whose identities it doesn’t have to disclose – to run the ads saying the lawmakers “betrayed” their constituents by voting …
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Koop’s False Claims

Posted on February 1, 2010

Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop claims that the United Kingdom’s health care system would consider seniors “too old” to qualify for the artificial joints, heart pacemakers and coronary stent that he’s received in the U.S. U.K. guidelines make clear …
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