…According to Andy Rooney, AARP was established by insurance salesman Leonard Davis in 1958, after he met Ethel Percy Andrus. Ms. Andrus was at the time helping teachers get health insurance through the National Retired Teachers Association.

According to Rooney, Davis saw the opportunity to sell medical insurance to the elderly rather than just retired teachers and for that purpose put in $50,000 establishing AARP. According to Rooney, Davis established the Colonial Penn Insurance Co. in order to control AARP, selling millions of dollars in insurance to its members through advertisings in AARP’s magazine Modern Maturity and for several years Colonial Penn Insurance Co. became one of the most profitable in the U. S.

In 1978, after a 60 Minutes report exposé, AARP got rid of Colonial Penn Insurance Co. and signed up with Prudential Insurance Co.[3] According to critics, until the 1980s AARP was controlled by businessman Leonard Davis, who promoted its image as a non-profit advocate of retirees in order to sell insurance to members.[4]

In the 1990s, the United States Senate investigated AARP’s non-profit status, with Republican Senator Alan Simpson, then chairman of the Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, questioning the organization’s tax exempt status in congressional hearings. These investigations did not reveal sufficient evidence to change the organization’s status.[5]

The organization was originally named American Association of Retired Persons, but to reflect that its focus had become broader than American retirees, in 1999 it officially changed its name to just “AARP” (pronounced one letter at a time, “A-A-R-P”).[6] AARP no longer requires that members be retired.

Obama has already lost his senior supporters at this point. He’s pushing too hard for this bill. And, it won’t be worth it to trade with the public trust. He needs to compromise whether with the seniors or with the opposers about the public option. Like what Rachel Maddow said in this vdo, a reform without public option is not worth spending political capital on at all!

http://www.newsy.com/videos/wh.....hite_house

The dues both organizations collect are dwarfed by the money they make selling insurance. At least for the AAA organizations, they typically lose money on their travel and roadside services. They treat them as loss leaders. I’ll bet AARP is the same way.

The lure of 46 million new insurance customers, and whatever deals AARP has struck with the Moron’s Criminal Cabal make it a 100% certainty that AARP is 100% behind whatever the administration proposes.

It will be interesting to see what impact the decline in membership has.

But I predict that the uber-libwit AARP management will remain unmoved……….unless people begin cancelling their insurance policies.

I am glad seniors are waking up and realizing that this group does not represent their interests.

I was not able to find it on the site. AARP has removed “AARP Commercial – “Way Too Important / Divided We Fail” video also. Could not find ambulance video either.

I heard some AARP spokesman deny that they were supporting Obama’s bill but health care needed reform.

Let this be a lesson as to who you choose to buddy up with.
I see the rats jumpin’ ship!