AARP is powerful and they BETTER make some noise, or we’re allllll in trouble...
By Jeffrey Young
Posted: 03/12/09 12:47 PM [ET]
Incoming AARP CEO A. Barry Rand contributed $8,900 to President Obama's campaign committees, federal records show.
Rand, a retired senior executive at Xerox Corp., Avis Group and Equitant Inc. and the current chairman of Howard University's board of trustees, gave the maximum $4,600 to Obama's election campaign and an additional $4,300 to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising entity of Obama and the Democratic National Committee. Source: The Hill
AARP has an agreement with United Health, for both Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement. They also have a Prescription plan.
I am guessing that AARP will be very loud on this!
And, if they are not, well, AARP will be in trouble with its own members!
Who did AARP support in the election?
AARP is in his back pocket. The folly is that AARP is a senior advocate group.
AARP is leftists fooling seniors into thinking they care.
We might actually prefer that AARP stays out out of the fray. Their literature is pro universal health care.
My bet is that the AARP will go along with Zero. I’m basing this on their response to my letter to them about this article:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
Their response was that the concerns raised in the article were “alarmist”. They will willfully turn a blind eye because Zero has a D behind his name.
AARP is a big proponent of dumping Medicare Advantage plans entirely. They have a conflict of interest because of the fees paid to AARP by United Health Insurance who peddles Supplemental Medicare insurance policies under the AARP banner. AARP is NOT the friend of seniors. It is a socialist organization.
“AARP is powerful and they BETTER make some noise, or we’re allllll in trouble...”
AARP is just another left-wing pressure group that has conned a bunch of older folks into giving it money. AARP will put up no resistance to its new socialist overlords.