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    <title>topic AARP has lost their way - do not trust insurance company endorsements in Medicare &amp; Insurance</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;IRA drug caps are why your drug part D premiums increased. &amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;AARP makes billions of dollars selling products from UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest insurer. And insurers made out like bandits in the IRA — the new “negotiations” (read: price controls) on pharmaceuticals help pad their bottom lines, as does the extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies in the law, paid for by &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/19/democrats-plan-to-snatch-medicare-dollars-from-seniors-to-subsidize-their-rich-friends/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;raiding the Medicare program&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;. &amp;nbsp;AARP always claims that policy, not politics, dictates its stances. But when the organization’s &lt;A href="https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/about_aarp/annual_reports/2023-form-990-public-disclosure.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;tax filing with the IRS&lt;/A&gt; admits that “gross revenue of AARP and its affiliates … are considered in employee compensation,” and royalties, primarily but not exclusively from UnitedHealth, constitute &lt;A href="https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/about_aarp/annual_reports/aarp-2023-financial-statement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;over 60 percent of the organization’s revenue&lt;/A&gt; — and growing — each and every AARP employee has thousands of reasons to toe the UnitedHealth line, in the form of their paychecks.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:26:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>https://community.aarp.org/t5/Medicare-Insurance/AARP-has-lost-their-way-do-not-trust-insurance-company/m-p/2594527#M10674</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;IRA drug caps are why your drug part D premiums increased. &amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;AARP makes billions of dollars selling products from UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest insurer. And insurers made out like bandits in the IRA — the new “negotiations” (read: price controls) on pharmaceuticals help pad their bottom lines, as does the extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies in the law, paid for by &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/19/democrats-plan-to-snatch-medicare-dollars-from-seniors-to-subsidize-their-rich-friends/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;raiding the Medicare program&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;. &amp;nbsp;AARP always claims that policy, not politics, dictates its stances. But when the organization’s &lt;A href="https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/about_aarp/annual_reports/2023-form-990-public-disclosure.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;tax filing with the IRS&lt;/A&gt; admits that “gross revenue of AARP and its affiliates … are considered in employee compensation,” and royalties, primarily but not exclusively from UnitedHealth, constitute &lt;A href="https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/about_aarp/annual_reports/aarp-2023-financial-statement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;over 60 percent of the organization’s revenue&lt;/A&gt; — and growing — each and every AARP employee has thousands of reasons to toe the UnitedHealth line, in the form of their paychecks.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
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