AARP: Voice Of Seniors, Or Senior Commecial Providers?

For Any And All Conserve-ative Constitutionalists:

It has been interesting to note just how much press has been give in the health care reform nightmare in mentioning that the needs of senior citizens are being addressed in that one of the groups that Obama and this Congress has included is the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons).

Years and years ago, AARP was formed in order to be an organization primarily in order to address any and all legislation with respect to senior Americans as a resource site and public forum for senior concerns.

However, that has not been the case now for several decades, and is now more of a trade group of vendors which market their wares through AARP offering discounted rates for their services.

Hence, AARP is one of the largest sellers of supplemental insurance plans now marketed to senior citizens since the advent of medicare and medicaid under those governmental bare bones health care plans. And thus would be fundamentally supportive of any legislation in the government retaining or gaining more profit or control in and of the health care industry and representing its various vendors and not senior citizens at all in that respect. Most of those supplemental plans never do have to provide for any costs of care, since right now under medicare the government has the say as the primary care provider, and most of those supplements now are merely backups which are no backups at all when it comes to the more expensive treatments which are needed for heart conditions or cancer, the two most common diseases which occur to citizens in late middle or older age.

You do need to pay for their membership fees for those discounts, so in affect it is a commercial organization marketing to seniors, not a representative of them.

So the media's use of this organization also in order to foster some sort of false legitimacy that Washington is taking into consideration this legislation from a citizen and consumer standpoint is again mere propaganda