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: Democrats routinely excoriate private insurers for supposedly putting profits above people. " No American should ever spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies," President Obama told the AARP yesterday. But the typical private insurer gets by on a profit margin of about 5 to 6 percent. AARP’s 4.95 percent royalty, on the other hand, doesn't do anything to make a health plan operate more smoothly: it's just pure profit for AARP. 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."