We all have our opinion about a national health care plan and so does AARP. The wife and I don't agree with AARP's opinion and their lobbying efforts to stress their opinion on congress and as a member of AARP since 2002 we decided that since our opinions differ greatly, the time had come to cancel our AARP membership. My wife took on the task of cancelling the membership. When talking to AARP on the phone she was told that there would be no refund coming for the remaining 15 months left on our membership. There is no use in talking with AARP further, they have a policy of not refunding membership dues for any reason. So the only recourse was to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commision and to get a letter off to our senator and see if that prompts AARP in this single case to send a refund, we'll see.
If you haven't noticed the news lately, AARP membership is dropping off due to cancellations for the same reason we cancelled. AARP has gone from a representative of the retired people to a provider of medicare supplemental insurance for retired people. Now AARP sees an opportunity to become a government national health care supplemental insurance provider to a much larger market than the retired community and is willing to throw seniors under the bus to get there. A case where money is mightier than the sword (seniors).
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