Comments on: AARP to endorse government health care takeover

By: prendad

prendad — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:10:08 +0000

if you show your AARP card when checking into a hotel, they will routinely knock $10 to $20 bucks off the nightly rate.

When I travel I can get the same $10 to $20 and even more off my hotel bill by showing a Hertz, Avis, Enterprise etc. ID card, an NRA ID card, a retired military ID card, an AAA ID card, and I could go on and on. The point is, you can get these discounts for less and often for nothing. The same for insurance. There are much better deals with much better overall coverage available other than AARP. I know. I looked and found them.

By: davidcaskey

davidcaskey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:01:00 +0000

AARP sells United Healthcare, this is a gap insurance for medicare. It is one of the worst of the insurance companies. The deal is that the federal government would drop medicare advantage, a program that actually works. This would allow AARP and United Healthcare to step in as the principal seller of medigap. I have seen little benefit from AARP. They are in essence insurance brokers. They might give you a deal, but have you cashed in on the insurance? I know from my experience with United Healthcare that they rarely pay.

By: DBNinKY

DBNinKY — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:10:11 +0000

dine=done

By: DBNinKY

DBNinKY — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:09:23 +0000

AARP does not sell AARP insurance.

Are you sure? I admit I’ve dine no research on it yet, but it’s my understanding that they own a controlling interest in a Medi-gap company.

By: John Deaux

John Deaux — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:00:06 +0000

Apparently, freedom does have a price. To les, it’s worth about $700/year and $10-$20 per night.

By: les

les — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:40:51 +0000

On November 4th, 2009 at 10:36 pm, prendad said:
They are nothing but a bunch of insurance re-selling con artists who make their profits much like drug pushers do. AARP does not sell AARP insurance. They re-sell other peoples insurance and tack on a nice profit for themselves while shouldering none of the responsibility for the product that they push. They also pitch their sales with flowery add-ons like car rental and hotel room discounts. In reality, these discounts are so small that they are not even worth the effort.

I’ve had the exact opposite experience. A few years ago I had the AARP insurance partner quote my home insurance. I wound up switching to their insurance from my local “good hands” agent, saving over $700 a year for the same coverage. Also for anyone who travels often, if you show your AARP card when checking into a hotel, they will routinely knock $10 to $20 bucks off the nightly rate.

By: orlandocajun

orlandocajun — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:13:21 +0000

The perfect scenario would be for the Health Care Bill and AARP to collapse simultaneously.

By: rplatt

rplatt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:30:15 +0000

ARRP want to continue selling insurance so they made a deal with the devil. Go to hell AARP.

By: Dexter Alarius

Dexter Alarius — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:27:50 +0000

Check out the 60-plus Association.

Are there any members out there? Do you have to be “60-plus” to join?

By: Yashmak

Yashmak — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:23:48 +0000

Last time AARP endorsed health care reform, against the wishes of the majority of its membership, the results weren’t pretty for AARP.

By: cheapseat

cheapseat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:08:08 +0000

ot; the story the main stream media won’t tell you about flotus;

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652

sorry, i don’t know how to link, but this will tell you how we can have a 2 trillion dollar jump in deficit spending in one year by this clown and his wife. great read for all those laid off workers grom gubmint motors.

By: Dimsdale

Dimsdale — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:06:18 +0000

AARP has become as useless as a big union, which is effectively what they consider themselves.

By: MarkD

MarkD — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:16:18 +0000

My freedom is not for sale. My freedom is not for sale for some discounts or cheap insurance.

I send back the invitations in their postage paid envelopes. It costs me nothing to let them know how I feel.

By: malkin_fan

malkin_fan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:12:28 +0000

LOL, This is like watching people complaining they STILL want to get on the Titanic

AFTER

it hit the iceberg.

What morons.

By: rplatt

rplatt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:52:36 +0000

AARP is an extension of the unions and nothing but a left wing propaganda element. People should drop that worthless organization as quickly as possible.