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AARP’s 2022 Financials Reveal Over $1.1 Billion in Annual Corporate Royalty Payments

CONTACT: Stephen Manfredi smanfredi@manfredistrategygroup.com Mostly From a Single Health Insurance Conglomerate: UnitedHealth Group Washington, D.C. — October 16, 2023 — AARP’s 2022 financial disclosures revealed that the “seniors advocacy organization” was paid more than $1.1 billion in corporate royalties last year. Based on historical analysis and assumptions, most of those funds are likely attributable to a single company, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group (UHG). UHG is one of the nation’s largest health insurance and pharmacy benefit management…

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Washington Examiner: Older people call Bidenomics a ‘failure’ and ‘cruel jest’

President Joe Biden’s hope of riding his costly spending bill to reelection has fallen flat because older people now see it as a bait-and-switch scheme to push a leftist green agenda at their expense. Overwhelmingly, older voters said that they have received little or no benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act Biden has been touting in stops around the country. Instead, they believe that the only beneficiaries of the economic hype have been Biden and his political pals. “From consumer prices…

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More Than 80% of Older Americans Say Democrats’ IRA Spending Bill Has Not Helped Them Personally According to New Survey

CONTACT: Stephen Manfredi smanfredi@manfredistrategygroup.com Nearly 80% View IRA as a Failure & Over 90% Oppose Using Medicare Rx Savings to Fund Unrelated Spending Before Major Drug Cost Provisions for Medicare Beneficiaries are Implemented Washington, D.C. — August 29, 2023 — As part of its Commitment to Seniors initiative, American Commitment released a new national survey conducted among 800 likely voters who are 55 and older. The poll was conducted by McLaughlin & Associates. The findings…

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DC Journal: AARP Has Forgotten Whom It Represents

AARP is supposed to be a public advocate for older Americans, championing policies that improve their quality of life and stopping those that would adversely affect them. But instead, its actions and priorities increasingly seem more aligned with its corporate financial partners. There is no greater example of AARP’s lost purpose than its determined political lobbying to push the Inflation Reduction Act through Congress.

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Committee to Unleash Prosperity: The Incestuous Relationship Between AARP, United Health, and the Democratic Party

A major “deficit reduction” measure in Biden’s scam “Inflation Acceleration Act” was to impose price controls on new patented pharmaceutical drugs. This was supposed to SAVE the government more than $200 billion over the next decade, and lower Medicare costs. But Tomas Philipson, an economist at the University of Chicago has found that Americans will suffer “health losses valued at $18 trillion” due to such factors as lost years of life, due to delaying the introduction of…

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