AARP and United Health Care problems

[dwainwilder]

Is AARP reconsidering its relationship with United Healthcare? UHC leads the industry in denial of coverage, a circumstance which is driving the public at large sentiment away from the company and the whole concept of corporate insurance as the best way to fund health care.

And I was surprised that AARP rakes about $200 off the top of my annual payments to its UHC Supplemental plan. It seems to me that AARP might be entirely too cozy with UHC.

The health insurance is the only substantive reason for me to pay membership dues to AARP. The Roadside Assistance Plan has been shunted to some sort of AI-Bot system in which one rarely gets to speak to a human about non-scripted details of an emergency situation. The bot actually cancelled a request for help last winter. And its cost has increased 65% in the last seven years.

I'll be switching to some other agency (maybe even the dreaded AAA) at the end of the current billing cycle —and pulling the plug on AARP entirely, after 20 years, unless something improves, somewhere, somehow...