As I approach my twilight years (always wanted to use that term) I am bombarded with ads and flyers and deals and on and on……..from the King of the elderly….AARP…..I have resisted joining because of the TV ads for their Medicare plan …..somehow it does not sit well with me that they are pushing United Health, which is one of the biggest screwers of the consumer…..

CQ Politics is reporting:

House Republicans trying to thwart Democrats’ plans for a health care overhaul are questioning the motives of AARP, the 40-million-member seniors’ organization that the GOP accuses of putting its own interests ahead of its members’.By attacking AARP, the Republicans are wagering that seniors who fear that proposed changes to Medicare will hurt them can be turned into a potent force against an overhaul — even if their biggest advocacy group is friendly to many of the Democrats’ ideas.

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana and Dave Reichert, R-Wash., fired new salvos at AARP. Reichert said that the group, which collects royalties when its members buy AARP-endorsed coverage from private insurers, is helping Democrats kill off a private-sector version of Medicare called Medicare Advantage so it can collect more commissions from seniors who would be forced to find new arrangements.

I truly wish I could come to the defense of AARP in this matter…..but alas…I cannot…