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Why Would the AARP Endorse ObamaCare Cuts in Medicare? Follow the Money.

BK22 Wrote: Dec 26, 2009 9:28 PM
is not about seniors. AARP is about INSURANCE. These people are now in the insurance business and what better way to insure your piece of the pie than by siding with those who will divy it up.

This is NOT about healthcare at all but about who controls the decisions and the power.
The Chicago Tribune is wondering--what's up with the AARP?  Something must be up:
Why else would the nation's largest lobbying organization, sworn to protect the interests of senior citizens, watch silently as Congress plans to cut Medicare spending by $400 billion to pay for its health reform legislation? Could it be that the interests of seniors and AARP are not exactly aligned?

Let's follow the money. AARP takes in more than half of its $1.1 billion budget in royalty fees from health insurers and other vendors that market services with the organization's...
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