[bert]

AARP is not really an insurance company. To be more correct, AARP is an insurance brokerage firm or a big insurance agency.

AARP selects different insurance companies for different purposes and then flog them to the geezers.

I myself have Medicare Advantage policy issued by United Health care. This year it is labeled AARP/United Health Care. I objected to United saying that I wanted no policy associated with the lefties at AARP. The answer was there is no real association and AARP is the same as other agents selling thier product that I was purchasing on line sans any agent.

AARP chose their product and by so doing created massive confusion in what was what. United has many different policies in many many different areas. AARP apparently selected some for sale and not others. By incorporating AARP into the policy name they hoped to reduce the confusion.

By the way, the AARP/United Health Care Medicare Advantage policy I have has no monthly cost in my county.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I get AARP solicitations four or fives times a year. Guess they know I'm reaching Semi-geezerhood. For every letter I receive, I cut up the narrative and plastic $16 membership card and return it to AARP in their own self addressed free envelope.
It's a small protest, I know. Wife asks what's the point; why not just toss it ? I answer, if others would do the same, maybe they'd quit sending.
Maybe...