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Patricia Barnes: Once Again, Is AARP Advocating For Older Americans Or For Itself?

In 1996, the New York Times said the AARP’s credibility would be at stake if it proceeded with efforts to license its name to managed care plans for a fee because “the policies that might be best for the elderly are not always the policies that are best for the bank account of the A.A.R.P.” Undaunted, the AARP charged full speed ahead. Since then, the AARP’s for-profit financial juggernaut, AARP Services, Inc., has earned so many…

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Ashley Herzog: The Trump Administration Wants Lower Drug Prices. AARP Does Not.

AARP claims to represent the interests of senior citizens across the United States, so watching the non-profit advocate for keeping prescription drug prices high has been an odd spectacle indeed. David Certner, AARP’s legislative policy director, recently released a letter urging Health and Human Services (HHS) to keep a special-interest loophole in the Anti-Kickback Statute, a law passed by Congress in 1972 to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse within the healthcare industry.

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Evie Fordham: The Trump Administration Says This Proposal Will Help Seniors Afford Their Drugs. AARP Says Not So Fast.

Critics of America’s current drug payment system say middlemen are jacking up prices and question why AARP, which is tied to a middleman organization, opposes a Trump administration proposal that could help seniors. Right now, these middleman organizations, called pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), are protected by safe harbor provisions from certain parts of the Anti-Kickback Statute.

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Matthew Boyle: Amid Data Privacy Concerns, AARP Sweetheart Deals with Federal Government Face Renewed Scrutiny

President Donald Trump’s administration has provided the nonprofit foundation arm of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) with more than $111 million in a variety of taxpayer-funded grants and contracts. But the gravy train may be coming to a stop soon amid concerns over not just AARP’s work against Trump’s agenda on major big-picture policy items such as healthcare and taxes but also over data privacy concerns for seniors who have trusted the organization…

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Erika Williams: AARP Must Face Challenge to Medicare Gap Policies

A federal judge in the nation’s capital ruled that senior citizen advocacy group AARP must face class-action claims that it defrauded consumers who bought insurance plans to supplement Medicare coverage. Lead plaintiff Helen Krukas, a Florida resident who brought a federal class action against the nonprofit group last year, claims AARP fooled consumers into paying an undisclosed 4.95 percent commission that was hidden in their monthly “Medigap” insurance premiums.

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Curtis Ellis: AARP: Leftist, Deep State scam

Reach into your mailbox after turning 65 and you’ll find a fistful of glossy mail. “You’re eligible for Medicare!” the face of a smiling senior citizen cheerily informs those entering their golden years. That means it’s time to buy insurance to cover the gaps in Medicare coverage.

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James Martin: “It’s Time to Defund the 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.

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