Posted on 08/30/2019 11:41:17 AM PDT by JeepersFreepers
AARP portrays itself as a classic membership organization, funded by dues in return for representation on a variety of issues. Yet its public financial statements reveal that the group receives the bulk of its revenue from health insurers. In 2017 the group received $627 million from UnitedHealth , the nation’s largest insurer, compared with $301 million in membership fees.
The insurance company pays AARP a royalty for the right to brand its plans with AARP’s name and logo. Based on the AARP’s current financials as well as an admission in 2012 by a former director of its Public Policy Institute, the group appears to have become dependent on this royalty income. Out of its total $1.6 billion revenue in 2017, $880 million came from royalties. No wonder AARP fought a proposal this year that would likely have lowered drug costs for its members at the expense of insurers’ profits.
If AARP won’t act in its members’ best interest, maybe it’s time seniors look elsewhere for the advocacy they need.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
It is hard to believe that 38 million members have been duped into believing that AARP is acting in their best interest.
AARP would be perfect for Venezuela. The socialist old people’s joke.
May they rot in a Dorbama city.
In years past AARP was overtly and profoundly anti Republican
AARP is an insurance broker.
I told the wife to absolutely NOT join AARP and I have called them twice and told them to STOP sending there recruitment literature!
They’re nothing more than shills for the companies they receive kickbacks from and have been for some time.
“I have called them twice and told them to STOP sending there recruitment literature!”
No, No, no always take their mailings, stuff them full with scrap paper and send them back at their expense. Been doing that for years. They are a communist supporting organization and are now shilling for an insurance Co.
LOL!!!
Thought I was the only one that did that. Folded the envelope and would have added a strip of lead if I thought it would pass.
The envelope looked pregnant!!!
They finally got the hint!
AARP can ESAD as far as I’m concerned.
We are members of AMAC.
AARP advocated for commie care.
Oh yeah, when Obamacare was on the way and I received my first AARP Rectruitment mailings, I took some FR advice and wrote all over it and mailed it back to them in their envelope. It took them 3 tries before they stopped.
iirc, took a few more for them to realize I was serious!
‘Kinda sorta’ miss doing it now! :0)
I dropped AARP like a bad habit when their monthly magazine became so blatant in publishing democRAT propaganda that even a dunce such as I couldn’t not notice it. And I think the writer skews the truth re AARP and United Whatchamacallit Ins. I think AARP owns United. And the whole outfit is an adjunct of the ‘RAT Party. They surely did beat the drums for Obamacare.
NO! Have them keep sending you materials. Always return their pre-paid materials, with none of your personal information. Even an empty envelope.
I used to regularly get mailings from AARP.
I chopped up the plastic card and paperwork, returning it in AARP’s free envelope...
bkmk
Their politics cost them any affiliation from me.
I’m with AMAC. So is my neighbor. So are millions of other U. S. Citizens.
AARP is a left wing cesspool.
Everything that comes from AARP goes into the recycling bin on the way back from the mailbox. Really pisses me off when I miss one and waste the energy to open the envelope.
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