{"id":1274,"date":"2009-10-12T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2009-10-12T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:20:52","slug":"aarp-to-the-rescue-%e2%80%93-of-its-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1274\/aarp-to-the-rescue-%e2%80%93-of-its-business\/","title":{"rendered":"AARP to the Rescue \u2013 of its Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it only took the Obama administration a half-day to find folks to trash an insurance industry <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1256\/the-baucus-bill-bending-the-cost-curve-higher-for-american-families\/\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> that calculates much higher health care insurance premiums under the Baucus version of ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth the paper it\u2019s written on,&#8221; AARP Executive Vice President John Rother\u00a0 said, according to the Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That couldn\u2019t be the same AARP that sees nothing distressing in Medicare cuts of $500 billion or of significant cuts to Medicare Advantage under the Baucus plan, could it?\u00a0 The AARP that sells insurance\u00a0 that will competitively benefit from cuts in Medicare Advantage?\u00a0 The AARP that sells tons of stuff to seniors by making those seniors believe that AARP is their lobbyist while laughing all the way to the bank?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it only took the Obama administration a half-day to find folks to trash an insurance industry study that calculates much higher health care insurance premiums under the Baucus version of ObamaCare. &#8220;I really don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth the paper it\u2019s written on,&#8221; AARP Executive Vice President John Rother\u00a0 said, according to the Associated Press.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,12],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-aarp","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}