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Apparently feeling betrayed by the AARP's relentless cheer-leading for ObamaCare, seniors are voting with their feet--and their wallets. More than 150,000 people have canceled their memberships since July.
The group dismisses the losses and claims to be gaining even more members and membership renewals. But as I noted earlier today, only 16% of seniors think they will be better off with ObamaCare. This makes the AARP's posturing and questionable math difficult to believe.
Seniors are flocking by the thousands to a group called the American Seniors Association (ASA). It is a conservative version of the AARP that actually represents seniors, rather than selling them down the river for the right price with illegal government health care takeovers.
The group is on the record blasting ObamaCare as an economy-killing war on doctor-patient choice that will fund abortion and cover illegal immigrants. Click here to learn more about the ASA.
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I turn 50 next year and the AARP has been reaching out to me.....I wrote them back to explain WHY I wasn't interested..and have been exploring other options....
I sent my husbands application back in their own sase explaining that they would never see our name on their membership rolls.
I told every person I know to cancel. They did.
Mr Moon ,
I am a conservative. And it is really hard to take you seriously as such when your comment section won't allow the common word for hades. If you or your readership are so sensitive to hearing disagreeable words it's no wonder Health Care has passed while you all wait for anticeptic articles and comments to "filter" through. You and your readership need to understand unequivically that the Dems in Washington ain't goona stop for the sensitivities of you ears...They are playing for Keeps Folks. This Election was a Game changer.
AARP is like everything else in America, GREED has taken over, and they don't care who they step on to make MILLIONS.
"...seniors are voting with their feet--and their wallets. More than 150,000 people have canceled their memberships since July."
You left out the next sentence of the article; in the same time period AARP has had 2.7 new members and renewals. So yes,some seniors are unhappy, it appears a couple million more are not. I think it would be an interesting statistic to find out how many people typically cancel their memberships in a year, versus how many new members join/renew in a year. It would give this statistic better context.
They should AARP not been truthful, just like this administration has about almost everything they are doing. Come to think of it you can apply that to congress as well.
aarp doesn't have to reveal their true membership.
a lot of people stay with AARP just for the good deals on insurance (home and auto). if ASA offered the same deals, they might see more new members who are tired of AARP's message. unfortunately, with many seniors on fixed incomes, we have to take every deal we can get.
most of us have done things the right way all of our lives, and are tired of seeing the government bail out the crooks who operate solely from greed.
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