Montini: Kelli Ward to keynote anti-Medicare group meeting
EJ Montini: The organization believes Medicare and Medicaid are "evil."
EJ Montini
I’m wondering if Arizona Republicans who favor Kelli Ward over Sen. Jeff Flake realize how closely she is tied to a wacky, conspiracy-prone physicians group that believes Medicare and Medicaid should not exist and are, in fact, “evil.”
The organization is the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Ward is so much the group’s darling that it recently announced she will be a keynote speaker at the AAPS’s annual meeting in October in Tucson.
Ward previously got the AAPS’s endorsement when she lost the primary to Sen. John McCain. She’s bound to get it again against Flake.
The creepy aspect of such a thing is that Ward actually welcomes it.
What the AAPS believes
The AAPS has over the years promoted a number of screwy, debunked ideas: That HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, for example. Or that abortion causes breast cancer. Or that vaccines cause autism.
The group even suggested – which also was disproved – that immigrants caused a leprosy outbreak in the U.S.
Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that “Chemtrail” Kelli would be in good (or is it bad?) standing with such an organization.
But calling Medicare and Medicaid “evil?”
These are health care programs upon which many Arizona senior citizens and others rely. They were created under what are called the Social Security Amendments of 1965.
In the AAPS’s website, under its list of “principles,” the group urges a “a policy of non-participation” in the programs and says “the effect of the law is evil and participation in carrying out its provisions is, in our opinion, immoral.”
Ironically (or not), those same characteristics – “evil,” “immoral” – apply to such a statement.
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