Chris Woodward - OneNewsNow - 11/15/2010 3:45:00 AM
A non-profit, non-partisan membership organization for people age 50 and over is receiving sharp criticism after announcing it is raising healthcare premiums for its employees.
In September 2009, AARP insisted that ObamaCare must be enacted to reduce the cost of healthcare. But now, that same group is raising the cost of insurance for its employees -- a move Dr. Larry Hunter, president of the self-professed conservative alternative to AARP, Alliance for Retirement Prosperity, calls "treacherous."
"As a Fortune 500 corporation, which AARP is, this was a commercial play to undermine their main competitor, Medicare Advantage Plans, and that was the deal they cut with the White House," Hunter contends. "The reason I call that treachery is because [AARP] abandoned its membership."
He says the endorsement was also a move by AARP to continue receiving a tax exemption from insurance and millions of dollars in federal grants.
"The irony is that now, AARP itself has found it necessary to raise the cost of healthcare to its employees -- and it's a direct result of ObamaCare," the Alliance president points out. He further adds that "if this is how AARP treats its employees, imagine how it treats its members."
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