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Why AARP Supports Insurers Over Seniors

The year 2024 exposed the lie behind the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act.” Last summer, the Biden Administration announced a “premium stabilization demonstration”—a bailout of questionable legality—because otherwise seniors’ premiums for Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage would go through the roof. Instead of admitting the flaws of the law Democrats rammed through in 2022, the Biden Administration decided to use additional taxpayer funds to pay insurers an average of $100 million each, undermining Medicare’s financial stability. Why would AARP, which…

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Commitment to Seniors Urges Congress to Reject the “Most Favored Nation” Proposal and Protect Americans from Harmful Price Controls

Washington, D.C. — May 3, 2025 — Commitment to Seniors, a project of American Commitment, strongly urges Congress not to replace the current Medicaid “Best Price” model with the Trump administration’s Most Favored Nation (MFN) proposal in the upcoming reconciliation package. MFN is a form of price fixing and is not the answer to lowering prescription drug costs in the U.S. If implemented, international reference pricing would risk patients’ access to Medicaid drugs, and manufacturers could be forced…

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Commitment to Seniors Supports President Trump’s Executive Order Addressing the Biden Pill Penalty and PBMs to Lower Drug Prices for Americans

Washington, D.C. — April 18, 2025 — Commitment to Seniors, a project of American Commitment, applauds President Trump for signing an Executive Order titled “Lowering Drug Prices By Once Again Putting Americans First,” which aims to reduce prescription drug costs by eliminating the Biden Pill Penalty and reforming the opaque practices of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) to ensure real savings for patients. We commend President Trump for his dedication to addressing these critical issues with solutions that can…

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EPIC Act a Good First Step Toward Undoing the Damage Biden’s IRA Did to Medicare

President Joe Biden left the new Trump administration with a lot of messes to clean up. Between open borders, sky-high inflation, a weaponized IRS, a degraded military, wasteful green energy spending, and other special interest handouts—it is hard to keep track. But one of Biden’s most egregious efforts was the scheme to covertly manipulate and financially drain Medicare—and American seniors’ wallets—to help pay for his handlers’ misguided political agenda.

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New Research and Polling Sounds Alarm on AARP’s Lucrative Financial Partnership with Major Health Care Conglomerate UnitedHealth Group

Majority of AARP’s Revenue Comes from Corporate Royalties (Nearly $10 Billion from UnitedHealth Group), Not Member Dues Media Contact: Michael DeSantis michael@americancommitment.org Washington, D.C. — March 26, 2025 — Today, as part of its “Commitment to Seniors” initiative, American Commitment announces the release of a new comprehensive report on AARP’s financing and conflicts of interest conducted by Juniper Research Group, along with new polling data from McLaughlin & Associates highlighting serious concerns about AARP’s financial entanglements with UnitedHealth…

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A Plea From Seniors: Eliminate the Biden Pill Penalty

      New polling confirms what seniors and health care experts have long feared: the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is poised to stifle drug innovation and limit access to lifesaving drugs. With their health on the line, seniors overwhelmingly want Congress to step in and pass the bipartisan legislation to undo the damage Biden did to Medicare. The Biden “Pill Penalty” is the direct result of the IRA’s misguided approach to Medicare…

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Letter to the Editor: AARP’s financial entanglement

In her recent AgriNews piece, Matilda Charles highlights the benefits of AARP membership, but leaves out a crucial fact: AARP’s deep financial ties to UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurer. AARP, an organization that claims to advocate for America’s seniors, collects billions annually in corporate royalties, primarily via AARP-branded UHG insurance plans. This financial entanglement raises important questions about AARP’s impartiality in advocating for meaningful healthcare reforms, particularly those that benefit and protect big…

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‘Shameful’: AARP’s partnership with healthcare giant faces backlash amid recent controversies

A partnership between AARP, the top interest group in the United States dedicated to the plight of seniors, is facing growing scrutiny over its partnership with UnitedHealthcare as the healthcare giant faces a growing number of controversies. “AARP now makes over a billion dollars a year in corporate royalties, more than triple what they make in membership dues,” American Commitment President Phil Kerpen told Fox News Digital. “The vast majority of those royalties come from the…

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