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Citing health overhaul, AARP hikes employee costs

2010-11-04T13:30:56Z

AARP says Obama's health care overhaul is one of the reasons its employees will pay more

AARP's endorsement helped pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Now the seniors' lobby is telling employees their costs will go up as a result.

In an e-mail to employees, AARP says health care premiums will increase by 8 percent to 13 percent next ye...

AARP Lies, sleeping with the Enemy

2010-11-03T00:09:23Z

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Doctors, AARP support new health overhaul bill

2010-06-26T03:15:07Z

AMA, AARP support revised health care overhaul bill; AMA calls it step toward real reform

The nation's largest association of doctors and the AARP senior citizens' lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama's revised health overhaul legislation.

James Rohack, the president of the A...

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health lobbying gears down

2010-06-25T18:41:02Z

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health care lobbying subsides as interest groups see new political terrain

Notice you're not bombarded anymore by TV ads about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul plan?

Drugmakers, business organizations and other interest groups in the health care battle have dialed down expensive lobbying campaigns as they assess how last month's stunning Republican capture of a Senate se...

Senate opens work on healthcare bill

2010-06-25T19:33:54Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate began work on a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Monday, with senators on both sides pouncing on findings in a nonpartisan budget report on insurance premiums to bolster their arguments.

With the debate expected to last up to three weeks, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid w...

FACTBOX-Glossary of terms in U.S. healthcare debate

2010-10-22T14:30:49Z

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AMA, AARP back House health care bill

2010-09-09T06:24:32Z

The push to overhaul health care received a major boost Thursday as the American Medical Association and AARP endorsed legislation drafted by top House Democrats.

The AARP, the nation's largest organization of older Americans, is a nonpartisan group that advocates for people 50 and older. The AMA, historically an opponent of health care reform, is considered one the nation's most influential doctors' advocacy groups.

"I want to thank both organizations again for their su...

Health fight TV ads pass $100 million for the year

2010-04-16T10:04:50Z

Groups battling over health care overhaul have spent more than $100 million for television ads

Medical providers, businesses and other groups battling over a health care overhaul have spent more than $100 million this year on television advertising — an enormous sum that highlights the stakes involved.

Evan Tracey, who heads a private data tracking company called the Campai...

Democrats trying to sell health plan to seniors

2010-04-16T10:10:18Z

Democrats try wooing seniors to health care drive, press AARP to step up its sales pitch

The White House and Democrats are laboring to attract skeptical seniors to their drive to reshape the nation's health care system, leading some to press the behemoth but reluctant AARP to be more aggress...

Health Reform: AARP, Astroturf, and the Co-op Public Plan

2010-10-24T09:57:19Z

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Mad over Healthcare Reform Myths

2010-10-22T07:23:36Z

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AARP loses members over health care stance

2010-04-16T10:46:58Z

About 60,000 senior citizens have quit AARP since July 1 due to the group's support for a health care overhaul, a spokesman for the organization said Monday.

The membership loss suggests dissatisfaction on the part of AARP members at a time when many senior citizens are concerned about proposed cuts to Medicare providers to help pay for making health care available for all. But spokesman

Obama confident health care overhaul coming soon

2010-04-16T10:51:25Z

Obama confident health care overhaul coming soon, speaks of `about 80 agreement' in Congress

President Barack Obama says he's confident his drive to overhaul health care will succeed.

The president writes in Sunday's New York Times about "health insurance reform" and says his attempt to overhaul the system is closer to r...

Health reform AdWatch: New ads mislead or dizzy seniors

2010-10-26T20:47:56Z

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Which Health Players Are Spending the Most On Lobbying?

2010-10-24T09:57:15Z

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Competing demands on health overhaul

2010-04-16T12:23:55Z

Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.

Some have more money and clout. All have something in common when it comes to overhauling health care: a huge stake in the outcome.

Their competing demands will help determine what happens as Congress writes legislation to reshape the nation's $2.5 trillion health care system to bring down costs and cover 50 million uninsured people. If the whole undertaking starts to fall ap...

Health overhaul draws groups' competing demands

2010-04-16T12:24:09Z

Many groups seek to influence Congress as lawmakers try to develop health overhaul legislation

Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.

Some have more money and clout. All have something in common when it comes to overhauling health care: a huge stake in the outcome.

Their competing demands will help determine what happens as Congress writes legislation to reshape the nation's $2.5 trillion h...

Groups find common ground on health care overhaul

2010-04-16T16:06:52Z

Eighteen groups representing diverse interests find common ground on health care

Groups often at odds over health care reform — consumers, insurers, doctors, employers — reached a broad agreement Friday that could serve as a starting point for lawmakers trying to overhaul the system.

Although the long-awaited report of the Health Reform Dialogue avoided some of the most contentious issues, the agreement does have the kind of far-reaching support lawmakers wi...

NASCAR Gordon Sponsor Auto Racing

2010-10-28T06:32:26Z

Rick Hendrick, right, owner of Hendrick Motorsports, announces the AARP and the AARP Foundation Drive to End Hunger will be the 2011 sponsor of Jeff Gordon's race car during a news conference at Hendrick Motorsports in

2010-03-27T15:01:08Z

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 16: Actor Jeff Bridges, AARP Magazine editor Nancy Perry Graham, actor Robert De Niro, actor Billy Crystal

Obama Holds Press Briefing

2010-06-25T22:34:43Z

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 05: (AFP OUT) White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs looks on as U.S. President Barack Obama arrives for a statement in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on November 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama in today's Daily Briefing thank...

Obama

2010-04-05T19:21:17Z

President Barack Obama, center, flanked by AARP Chief Executive Officer A. Barry Rand, left, and AARP President Jennie Chin Hansen, participates in an AARP tele-town hall on health care, Tuesday, July 28, 2009, in Washington

Obama Visits AARP

2010-04-05T19:33:03Z

WASHINGTON - JULY 28: (AFP OUT) United States President Barack Obama speaks during a "tele town-hall" meeting at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) headquarters to discuss his health care plan and its effects on senior citizens on July 28, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ob...