A Letter to the Editor: Why AARP Really Supports Obamacare

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The Washington Times ~ Robert Gibbs, on โ€œFox News Sundayโ€ last weekend, rhetorically asked host Chris Wallace if Obamacare was so bad for seniors, why did the AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons) endorse it?

Only Chicolini in the 1938 Marx brothers classic โ€œDuck Soupโ€ could have come across more unabashed when he asked, โ€œWho you going to believe โ€” me or your own eyes?โ€ Here is a possible answer that may enlighten the administrationโ€™s former spokesman: revenue.

AARP derives a majority of its income from two sources: government grants approved by administration functionaries and the sale of supposedly discounted services. Less than a quarter of its revenue comes from membership dues. If the risk of losing grant revenue seems too far-fetched or is insufficient motive for AARP’s endorsement, then Mr. Gibbs should read on.

Foremost in AARPโ€™s offering of services is the sale of their supplemental health insurance through United Healthcare. This insurance is blatantly advertised to fill the gap between the escalating health costs of seniors and Medicare shortcomings.

Itย doesn’tย take a logician to understand that by gutting more than $700 billion from the cash-strapped Medicare program, services and coverage will decrease and AARPโ€™s member base will be driven to buy supplemental insurance from companies like United Healthcare. Perhaps Mr. Gibbs missed this angle because when AARPโ€™s CEO came out for Obamacare in 2009, his endorsement lacked any disclosure of AARPโ€™s pecuniary interest.

Still, thousands of members saw the endorsement as a betrayal and turned in their memberships. As an update to this treachery and perhaps a preview of what may await seniors in the future, the administration has subsequently granted a waiver to AARP. That action exempts AARP (unlike other insurers) from having to defend any rate hikes for the policies it sells to its senior membership.

While Mr. Gibbs may have implied that AARP had the best interests of its seniors in mind when endorsing Obamacare while draining billions from Medicare, I prefer to believe my own eyes.

JERRY MURPHY
Arlington

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