AARP Loses 45,000 Members Over Support for Medicare Law

AP via FoxNews ^ | Friday, January 16, 2004

[FourPeas]

WASHINGTON

[Howie66]

Would this be considered to be "natural causes"?

[boomop1]

LOL I still won't join and stop sending me those membership cards.

[facedown]

45,000/35,000,000 = 0.13%.

I doubt they're worried.

[tacticalogic]

Anything that increases the size of the federal government benefits the Democrats, regardless of who's doing it. More programs means more bureaucrats and public sector employees - IMHO, one of the most powerful and influential constituencies of the Democrats.

[MainFrame65]

Even more, membership increased from 35.2 to 35.7 million, an increase of 500,000 for the year. Talk about a biased headline! How about, "insignificant number of resignations", instead?

[ruoflaw]

Once they resign, they should not let them rejoin.

[LS]

Actually, it's interesting that Bush has, by supporting this stupid legislation, helped cripple this horrible organization.

[Cicero]

In the past, the AARP has supported the Democrats even when it was against their members' interests. For instance, they did not strongly oppose clinton's decision to tax social security benefits, although they certainly should have if they were interested in doing the best thing by their members.

As a result, I suppose the majority of their members are either liberals or losers who have no idea what's going on.

[dfwgator]

AARP = "We're old, gimme gimme gimme!"

[alisasny]

What exactly is the AARP benefit? When my mother in law was trouting around her card a few years back we told her to just file it and it was pretty much worthless.

[FormerLib]

Don't worry, AARP clearly lost only the stupid ones. They'll be back soon when they can't figure out what to do on their own...

...or when they realize that can't get the AARP discount on their stuff anymore.

[tubebender]

45,000...that many members die every month

[muawiyah]

That 45,000 would probably be left-leaning New York retired teachers.

AARP is the result of a merger of two quite different organizations several decades ago. The "Association of Retired Teachers" joined "Association of Retired Persons" with the "Teachers" taking over at the "leadership" level.

The "Teachers" lawyer (and his firm) oved in on AARP and sucked everything they could get until about 10 years ago they ran into trouble with IRS and "lost"! I recall an amount something like $125,000,000.

A new, but equally left-leaning lawfirm was brought in but they started losing stuff left and right. They were also fired.

The present law firm handling AARP is much more business-like.

AARP is probably well-served with the loss of that particular group of 45,000 retired New York City school teachers AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS!

[chainsaw]

The Ultra Liberal AARP lost me a long time ago...

[Petronski]

"...its business relationship with insurers..."

Huh? I thought I read that AARP was itself one of the largest insurance companies for the elderly.

[freekitty]

Yea, do they count the membership cars they send out and are never validated?

[muawiyah]

AARP does not, itself, serve as an insurer. Rather, they "sponsor" one or more insurers.

There are big "kickbacks" in this.

[djf]

Cold, man, that was cold!

True, but cold!

;->

[sine_nomine]

AARP has good discounts for car rentals, hotels, and a few other items. However, AAA has the same discounts.