Just a reminder, we have a rotten Medicare prescription drug program in part because of the AARP.
Public Citizen has the details of some of AARP’s conflict of interest.
AARP Has Financial Conflict of Interest in Medicare Drug Bill
“Taking its business activities into account, AARP would stand to gain tens of millions of dollars each year in new income under the Republican Medicare bill, a finding that presents a significant conflict of interest for an organization trying to represent the best interests of its members,” said Frank Clemente, director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch.
The The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has a specific take down of the AARP’s deceptive advertising.
The new law also risks weakening Medicare financing by manufacturing an artificial Medicare financing crisis. The legislation creates a presumption that no more than 45 percent of Medicare’s costs should come from general revenues, even though Medicare Part B (which pays for physician and other outpatient services) and the new drug benefit are supposed to be financed through general revenues. The new law calls for the issuance of official government reports every year that identify the year in which the 45-percent threshold will be reached and that indicate the magnitude of the “unfunded liability” of the Medicare program as a whole. The new law mandates that this “unfunded liability” be computed based on the assumption that general revenues cannot defray more than 45 percent of overall Medicare costs. This provision of the new law also requires the consideration of legislation to make changes in Medicare that would keep general revenues from covering more than 45 percent of costs.
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Novelli is a former ad exec
However, Bill Novelli did not develop the original Harry & Louise ad. The ad was created by Ben Goddard and Rick Claussen of Goddard Claussen. Goddard Claussen was purchased by Porter Novelli in 1999 (Bill Novelli co-founded the latter firm) but Novelli had nothing to do with H&L.
my mistake, will edit.
sorry
As long as your editing...
… could you maybe add the best “detail” and the best “specific” on AARP? I think that would help readers and I know it would help me.
Thanks for this series, it’s going to be a huge resource.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
more details
I will try to do that later tonight. Good blogging takes the tastiest excerpts, so this isn’t great blogging.
Some have greatness thrust upon them...
You, for example, DCB!
I can do this for you if you want, but teach someone to fish and all….
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
Not that they noticed,
but I quit AARP over Medicare Part D, as did my mother, and wrote to tell them why. We haven’t rejoined.
Not that they’ve given up: just last week got a mailing with a “lifetime membership card.” Just send money.
Unfortunately for AARP I not only remember why I quit, I notice that they’ve never changed their policy.
So no go.
All that and Unity too
Don’t forget the AARP’s Divided We Fail campaign.
the great thing about our health care system...
in this country is that so many people make a great living off it if.
Of course the bad thing is how you get people with insurance going into bankruptcy because of caps, exclusions, pharmaceuticals. Probably better not to have any insurance because the route to bankruptcy is so much neater/cleaner.
Sicko! - I still like Michael even if he did drink Kool-Aid.
I have a really great health plan called "DGS"
“Don’t Get Sick”
So far, I’ve saved thousands of dollars in out of pocket premiums I can’t afford anyway.
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Real ponies don’t oink- Patrick McManus
If Hillary gets the gas tax passed
I’m going to spend my $30 on cosmetic surgery!
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.