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Originally Posted by Nipper
I find AARP publications very informative and have saved money with that information. I also have my car insurance (because its the best price) through AARP and my supplemental health insurance for the past six years because it is an excellent plan. None of the publications are "political" --- nothing like the comments in this thread.
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I don't think anybody has said their insurance plans weren't well priced or were not good coverage/service.
What is being said in the thread is that:
- they make more (hundreds of) millions of dollars more from insurance advertising/sales/royalties than they do from membership dues;
- they profit in the hundreds of millions from government/taxpayer-sponsored insurance plans like Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, federal/state employee plans etc;
- those profits are always thought to be money that could be used to provide coverage to those who cannot get or afford it;
- those profits stand to increase hugely with the government giving them with United Healthcare even more "public" coverage contracts in the current reform. In fact, the "United Healthcare MEDICARE STORES" that opened here in TV illustrate that growth.
- it's the
agenda in the background that's what's being discussed here....not "politics".
I don't think a single person here wants insurance companies to make even more profits at the expense of financing the programs that are supposed to get everyone covered affordably.