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Old 01-24-2022, 12:20 PM
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Couldn't agree with you more. Their agenda is not mine and hence I dropped the membership actually years ago. It used to be a good organization believe it or not.
I joined AARP when I hit 55 for the discounts. When I got on medicare at age 65 I enrolled in its United healthcare supplemental health and prescription insurance plans. I rarely have needed a prescription but the health insurance supplement seems to pay most charges (of which there have been few) just fine. Although I have other options my feeling remains that AARP enrolls so many people in its insurance plans they will continue into the future.

Actually I initially enjoyed the AARP magazine and the discounts when I remembered to ask for them but its imperatives drifted over the years and went from merely being offensive to quite repulsive to me. When I found I could drop the membership and keep the health insurance I did so.
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