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After the AARP came out in support of President Obama’s health care plan, my husband and I chose to cancel our membership - which we’d had for the past 10 years. AARP has always taken a liberal stance, in our view, but this recent turn of events caused us to say, “Enough.”

Here is a quote from DickMorris.com from his article, “Day One: How Obamacare Will Alienate Americans” concerning the AARP and the health care reform bill:

“The first “no” will hit the ten million elderly who now rely on Medicare Advantage to pay for the care Medicare itself does not cover. In a payoff to AARP, Obama gutted this program in his bill, ending over $100 billion in federal premium subsidies. These ten million voters will get the grim news that their premiums are going up and their benefits dropping early in 2010. The goal, of course, is to force them to drop Medicare Advantage and sign up, instead, for Medigap insurance — offered, not coincidentally, by the AARP — which provides less coverage at higher cost.”

Read the entire article and see if you still want to be a member of AARP.

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