It's clearly a worry for teams hoping to evaluate seniors against their peers.
The idea that the government might try to restrain Medicare spending was enough to turn seniors against the bill.
With so many kids leaving early, they've been able to play juniors and seniors against young kids".
Mr. Ensign's acceptance of $100,000 in drug company money, Mr. Bernstein declared, "stands against working families, against seniors, against Americans getting affordable prescription drugs".
At the same time, the head of the House Republicans' campaign committee gleefully signaled last week that he would use Mr. Obama's "shocking attack on seniors" against Democrats in general-election races — though Republican Congressional leaders demanded the concessions from Mr. Obama.
"These industries rely on a basic threat: If you mess with us, we can turn the seniors against you," said former Senator Alan K. Simpson, Republican of Wyoming, who tried cutting Medicare payments while he was in Congress.
It has a mixed record on preventive care — above average in vaccinating seniors against the flu, below average in vaccinating children — and a mixed record of caring for chronic and acute conditions.
Republicans have, for the most part, managed until recently to skate over this reality, simultaneously calling for lower spending in the abstract while posing as the defenders of seniors against Obama's Medicare cuts.They've been aided in this by pundits and reporters unwilling to seem "unbalanced" by pointing out the realities.
From the touted "health benefits" (apparently, a May 2012 Mayo Clinic study confirmed that a combination of exercising and using a computer may protect seniors against mild cognitive impairment!!!) to the stock photos of granny on iPad in the "how it works" section of the website.
The referendum proposal was filed by a group called Seniors Against Suicide, represented by clinical psychologist Mark Hoffman.
