AARP

AARP IS an insurance company Kay. They're in the bag to support this bill because of the kickbacks.

As AARP advocates for cutting Medicare Advantage plans by more than $150 billion, an analysis of the organization’s operations reveals that it stands to receive tens of millions of dollars at the expense of seniors’ medical care-with Democrats’ full approval:

* The Congressional Budget Office has previously estimated that the cuts to Medicare Advantage plans proposed in Democrats’ government takeover of health care (H.R. 3200) would cause millions of seniors to lose their current plan and enroll in government-run Medicare.... Read More... Read More

* Because the government-run Medicare benefit is less generous than most private health plans, the independent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission found in June that more than nine in ten seniors not in nursing home settings utilize some form of Medicare supplemental insurance. While many of these individuals currently rely on Medicare Advantage plans for the extra benefits they provide to seniors, many would be forced to purchase supplemental Medigap policies should their existing Medicare Advantage plans be taken away from them due to Democrats’ government takeover of health care.

* A review of its financial statements finds that in 2008, AARP received more than half a billion dollars in revenue from selling products like Medigap supplemental insurance policies-$652.7 million in direct “royalties and fees,” and an increase of more than 31 percent from the $497.6 million in similar revenue AARP generated in 2007.

* Royalty revenues now comprise more than half-60.3 percent-of all AARP revenues; a Bloomberg news analysis published in December found that in 1999, royalties comprised only 11 percent of the organization’s total revenues.

"There's an inherent conflict of interest....They're ending up becoming very dependent on sources of income."
- Former AARP Executive Marilyn Moon

http://www.gop.gov/policy-news/09/09/22/aarp-helping-seniors-or-helping

And does anyone think that cutting $500 billion from Medicare is going to help seniors? They are so full of hot air (and that's not what I'd really call it) it is sickening.

Wow! I'ved been trying to post a website that explains the increase in costs for us and AARP is blocking it. What's up with this? My first time on here, and all I see is negatives regarding the health bill. And AARP IS BACKING THIS FOR US?

The AARP is backing obama and leaving the seniors out to dry. The health care bill cuts 500 billion from seniors, taxes medical devices and will raise taxes on everyone. DUMP AARP!

It's a horrible 2000 page bill and represents liberal socialism.

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Tell me Stanie...where do you find your facts on other countries being light years ahead of our medical system? Every year people from all around the globe travel to the U.S. to receive treatments and surgeries that they can't get where they live. Step away from the MoveOn.org talking points and research.

Oh and Stanie...I don't listen to the guys you listed above...imagine that, I can read and think for myself!!

Spent 45 years in Canada before moving here to the U.S. 10 years ago. The truth is that both systems have benefits to them, as well as detrimental aspects. As I get older, and my 401K kicks in when I retire, I will definitely miss the Canadian system. At my current age and working, with a ton of money coming in, I prefer the U.S. system. As ... Read Moresomeone who has been on both sides of the fence, I can honestly say that I'm better off with the current U.S. healthcare system...as long as I have lots of money coming in. The AARP has my confidence with their stand on the healthcare plan, and my check when renewal time comes.

I have a job and it keeps me alive. The problem is I want a college type job and no one wants me in spite of my 2 Bachelor's and my 1 Associate's Degrees. I have a certificate degree which keeps me in work. I wasted 15 years going to school for nothing, and I know quite a few others my age in the same fix. In a poverty area like NM, there isn't much to go around.

Some of these doomsayers are regular here and they always preach the same lame rhetoric filled with hate and ugliness fraught with gross misinterpretations and lies. They always have some slick website to visit or spout the same old well rehearsed rhetoric that we hear from the health insurance industry.They are always on the attack calling anybody... Read More with a different opinion an "Obamabot" or something equally rude or disrespectful. Some of these people have been threatening to cancel their memberships for months now over this healthcare debate but they refuse to leave. I think it must be their job to spread mis-information and create dought among the people, a favorite tactic of the old Soviet Union. You can't have meaningful debate without empathy or respect! I was taught to respect the President even if I disagreed with his policy, using the Presidents name in an insulting manner is offensive and ugly to the good people of this country. Hope you cancel soon, see ya.

I think you have it backwards. The lies are coming from AARP and it's uninformed supporters. Has anyone mentioned that AARP derives a large portion of its income from insurance plans that have to compete with Medicare Advantage and that program will disappear under Nancy Antoinett-Care? Has anyone at AARP mentioned how much money they stand to make if it passes? Thought not. Has anyone read any of the 1990 pages of nonsense? No? Than how can you support it?

Maybe its time to turn away from AARP and United Health since they are partners in this rip-off.

If you don't like the movie, walk out. But the rest of us are trying to listen.

Jim, the people can do more than vote. They can Lobby themselves, they can canvass for the GOOD Politicians, they can get Information out to the voters, they can get involved. Heck they can even run for office. Even the low offices need good people and it's a heck of a good place to start replacing blood suckers.

Sue,
Sorry your conservative Hoffman didn't do better. I guess you'll be back voting for the RINOS again. As far as paying for health care I suggest we do it exactly the same way we pay for defense and the highways, exactly!!!!

In regards to my comments about the "goal" of the bill (I did not say that health care could use some good reforms), please watch this short video on youtube, which shows portions of speeches that say this is the plan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-6ebku3_E

Getting numbers from "a Humana Agent" is not evidence of your claims on the subsidies. Where are these figures found on line?

Norine, you are sincerely a breath of fresh air!!!!!