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Thread: AARP - worth it?

  1. #11
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    I was wondering if I should join because they offer a 30% discount on Ancestry. I think it's one-time deal, though.

  2. #12
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    I use AARP for a few things where the AARP endorsed provider is competitively priced.
    I would not buy something I don't really need, simply because it is sponsored by AARP.

    AARP's main source of income is royalties on the products they endorse, especially United Health Care Medicare Supplement insurance.

    For more than 50 years AARP has lobbied to confront age discrimination in employment, maintain affordable heath care for seniors, defend Social Security entitlements, etc. In recent years AARP political endorsements have been predominantly Democrats, but AARP is formally non-partisan. The AARP Foundation provides legal advocacy -- litigation in state and federal courts... often filing amicus briefs in cases that impact consumer issues of seniors. I picked a couple of examples from the AARP Foundation website:

    Hospital Dumping: "unscrupulous nursing homes" giving away a resident's bed while she is temporarily hospitalized, and refusing to readmit the patient when she has been medically cleared to return home. Hospital dumping tends to happen to the nursing home residents who are the neediest of staff time.

    "Granny Cams": family-installed video monitoring of activity in a patient's room in a nursing home. The court decision in Graff v. Heritage Manor was instrumental in the passage of legislation in Louisiana to govern granny cams, and to require nursing homes to permit them under certain conditions in Louisiana.

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