AARP
Why is the lavishly-funded, tax-exempt, Obamacare-promoting AARP receiving over $1 billion in taxpayer funds? AARP, perhaps the single greatest political obstacle to reforming the entitlement programs that will someday leave our children bankrupt and destitute, is the Scrooge McDuck of tax-exempt organizations, which is swimming in cash.
AARP
A few years ago, I wrote about my naïve effort to engage the AARP, Inc. in the substantive work of combating a half-century of second-class citizenship of older workers under U.S. law. (They declined.) So what has the AARP, the self-described advocate for Americans aged 50+, been doing instead?
AARP
The only way to stop the cycle of overspending in Washington and then fighting over raising the debt ceiling is to reform entitlements, anti-debt crusader Alan Simpson told CNBC on Tuesday. “Do something with the solvency of Social Security, which is the biggest elephant in all the rooms,” said Simpson, retired U.S. senator from Wyoming and GOP co-chair of former President Barack Obama’s bipartisan debt commission.
AARP
Roughly 52% of people turning 65 today will require long-term care at some point, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I’m sad to say that the new AARP Long-Term Services and Supports State Scorecard finds that most states aren’t doing a great job helping people needing such care.
AARP
Today I got another letter from AARP. The letters have been coming pretty much every week for 25 years. But in the past two months they’ve changed. AARP used to ask me to join. Now the letters from the lobbying group for older Americans say that I have joined but I haven’t paid my bill.
AARP
Like most of you, I have health insurance. Like most of you, my health insurance says it covers dental work. As with most of you, this is basically a fiction. Insurance companies are famously stingy at the dentist. Whenever I leave my dentist’s office, he and I follow a ritual. He solemnly informs me he will first bill my insurer, and I agree that would indeed be prudent. Then, about six weeks later, I get…