AARP - Advocates? Or Corporate Weasels?

[tucsonlib]

Disclaimer: I am not an AARP member. Oh sure, when I turned 50 I signed up. Seemed like a good deal for 10 bucks. But when they came out in support of the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan - a cynical sham and corporate giveaway if ever there was one, I resigned my membership.

And now the AARP is spending millions on TV ads calling for health care reform. These ads are effective, and often heartbreaking. People unable to receive care, or being forced into bankruptcy. "Dividedwefail.org", an AARP creation, is the sponsor of these ads. And when I visited their website, guess what? I found that their platform doesn't call for Universal Health Care. Not even close. Instead, it was full of meaningless feel-good Republican and Corporate talking points. Like "We need to improve the health care system by making it more affordable, boosting quality and eliminating waste."

But why should anyone be surprised? After all, AARP CEO Bill Novelli is a life long Republican political operative. And, of course, AARP itself has become little more than a glorified insurance company, raking in millions selling "Medicare Supplemental Insurance" and other plans which would become unnecessary anachronisms under a comprehensive, universal single-payer system.

No, I fear that these "United We Fail" ads are just more sophisticated, and hence more dangerous, updates of those Insurance Company-sponsored "Harry and Louise" ads from the 1990's.

Keep all this in mind the next time your AARP membership comes due for renewal.

[msongs]

1. aarp = corporate scam IMO nt

[whistle]

2. AARP should be shreddered, melted down and sold off as scape

...No way I would ever send that organization a dime...infested with crooks, thugs and cockroaches.

[Night_Nurse]

3. AARP is hoodwinking seniors... sad. nt

[CK_John]

4. AARP is front for an insurance company in my opinion. n/t

[Sal Minella]

5. A truly worthless organization. Couldn't believe it when they backed Plan D

so it doesn't surprise me they fail to be behind Universal Health Care.

[Bluestar]

6. AARP is, essentially, an insurance company--need I say more? n/t

[mckara]

7. Weasels! Just Another Insurance Company

[Canuckistanian]

8. AARP = scam

I think we were ALL hoodwinked with the Medicare scheme endorsement and the GOP's response.

Didn't Viguerie have a hand in that?

We all remember THIS: