Phil Kerpen A $9 billion health care gorilla

I’ ve written many times about AARP’ s lucrative arrangement with UnitedHealth, in which the latter’ s cash cow AARP- branded Medicare plans divert about 5% of premiums to pay“ royalties” to AARP. We estimated these payments totaled around $800 million per year, around triple what AARP collects in membership dues. That already made AARP the $800 million gorilla in D.C….