As I approached my retirement, one thing I knew I wouldn’t miss at all was paying my $9,000 a year health-care premiums.
So it was quite a shock when I found out that my new “free” Medicare wasn’t free after all. It only paid 80 percent of my hospital expenses but did not cover the doctors, the prescriptions, or even the remaining 20 percent.
Even though Obama did say that he was responsible for my success, I didn’t want to bother him.
So instead, I turned to AARP, his friend and supporter in Washington.
Guess what happened? They “sold” me their own AARP Medicare supplement, and I also bought Part B (the doctors) and a drug plan. How much could all that cost?
It turned out to be a whopping $8,000 a year, almost the same as my previous private insurance. Imagine what Medicare would have cost me, if it wasn’t “free.”
AARP has been transformed into a huge, money-making machine, raking in hundreds of millions of dollars each year, selling us “old geezers” a whole slew of their products.
Their scheme was a simple one. Become the spokesman for Obama’s new healthcare initiative, promote its “alleged” benefits, and then sit back and count the millions of dollars that came pouring into their coffers.
Under Obamacare, Americans are now mandated to have health insurance, and AARP just happens to be in the insurance business.
What a racket! And they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, as their membership soared to an amazing 378 million members.
Did you know that Obamacare is partially funded by a $716 billion withdrawal from Medicare? (See CBO or read the bill!)
Obama really needed help justifying this one, so he looked to AARP for help. And they certainly came to his rescue. AARP assured us that these cuts would actually strengthen Obamacare. (yea, right?), by removing the fraud, waste and duplication, which were threatening to bankrupt Medicare. Here we go again! Liers defending liers!
The CBO now verified our earlier suspicions that it will cost us a lot more than the $$716 billion to fund Obamacare.
So, what do they do now? They make up the difference by cutting Medicare services! In this month’s AARP magazine, AARP advised their members (ready for this one?) to avoid the following “unimportant” but expensive medical procedures: yearly check ups, most colonoscopies. bone density tests, PSA, Pet scans, stress tests, MRI, and EKG’s . Do you believe that?
With President Obama as their cheerleader, AARP earned in 2012, $500 million dollars in royalties selling their own Medicare supplemental insurance.
Wow! What a business ! Their operating expenses that year were a whopping 1.35 BILLION dollars! And that’s not a misprint! Their 30 full-time registered lobbyists alone spent an amazing $9.6 million dollars. (Statistics uncovered by Laura Johannes of the WSJ)
But. life is getting a little more difficult for AARP. More and more of their members are leaving for new organizations like The Association of Mature American Citizens, who better serve their members.
AARP has lost 300,000 members this year alone. This trend is far from over, as so many of us are finally seeing through AARP’s hypocritical facade.
Dr. Stephen Morris
North Hills
