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Kerrey, speaking at a health care forumsponsored by the American Associated of RetiredPersons (AARP), called Harkin a "Hulk Hogan" forhis treatment of fellow Democrats. At the forum,Kerrey denied he was a single-issue candidateinterested only in national health insurance...
...elderly are all-too-witting pawns in this game of beggar--thy-young-neighbor doctoring. The old get older, consume more and more health care resources, and get older and older and seemingly never die. Politicans don't have the guts to confront the AARP's millions of votes, so the elderly continue to monopolize dollars through high-tech efforts to push the envelope of life expectancy. Medicare (read: your income taxes) pays a lot, co-insurance is cheap, so the old, like the insured, don't care...
...Maryland sued a seller of medical-alert units (price: $1,295 each) that became useless junk when the firm failed to pay the company monitoring the equipment. And the American Association of Retired Persons decries the industry's high-pressure sales ploys. According to Myra Herrick, a retired Boston AARP representative, one elderly woman bought a Lifecall system after a four-hour sales pitch because she wanted the salesperson to leave. (Lifecall denies knowledge of the incident.) AARP contends that at $1,000 or more plus monthly monitoring fees, the systems are usually costlier than emergency-response services provided...
...mean, what could possibly be wrong with little flecks of white scalp-skin? If Head & Shoulders implied that grey hair would ruin a first impression, the AARP would sic a team of silver topped lawyers on them in a minute...
...addition, about eight members of the institute last spring volunteered to take classes in Health Resources with the American Association of Retired People (AARP), so they could advise other members on how to find good medical care...