Title: How the AARP Made $2.8 Billion By Supporting Obamacare's Cuts to Medicare
Headings: How the AARP Made $2.8 Billion By Supporting Obamacare's Cuts to Medicare
How the AARP Made $2.8 Billion By Supporting Obamacare's Cuts to Medicare
AARP blocked Medigap reforms, saving the group $1.8 billion
Cuts to Medicare Advantage could earn AARP over $1 billion
AARP Medigap plans exempted from Obamacare’s insurance mandates
AARP has a multibillion-dollar 'conflict of interest'

Content: Publicly, the AARP poses as an independent, non-partisan organization. But privately, the organization strongly favored Obamacare. “ We will try to keep a little space between us,” one senior AARP executive told the White House in November 2009, according to records unearthed by DeMint. “ [ Our] polling shows we are more influential when we are seen as independent, so we want to reinforce that positioning…The larger issue is how best to serve the cause” of Obamacare. Kim Strassel at the Wall Street Journal goes through 71 pages of emails uncovered by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which "show an AARP leadership...that from the start worked to pass Obamacare, before crucial details pertaining to seniors had been addressed." AARP had "long lambasted cuts in fees to Medicare doctors," she notes, but the lobby reversed itself for Obamacare, claiming that Obamacare's provider cuts were just fine. AARP has a multibillion-dollar 'conflict of interest'
This week, the AARP hosted a convention in New Orleans, at which President Obama and Paul Ryan spoke about Obamacare and Medicare. When Rep. Ryan spoke to the AARP about the importance of repealing Obamacare, he was booed. Small wonder, given the AARP’s extreme financial interest in the law. According to DeMint, during the Obamacare debate in Congress, the AARP’s phone logs from seniors registered more than 50 to 1 against the law.