Dear Mr. Novelli<\/p>\n
I have emailed you many times about my displeasure at your support of Medicare Part D and a request for an apology. I have sometimes been emailed back that my mail was forwarded to the appropriate department – or some such message [I think of that department as the “round file cabinet” of old \u2013 or today’s trash button.]<\/p>\n
I have not mailed you as I assume I’d also just be wasting my time as well trying that method \u2013 but after yet another letter from you filled with petitions and the ever present request to send money – I am posting this as an open letter on my blog. You may never see it – but others will.<\/p>\n
Back when you supported Medicare Part D and I call it part D[umb] many of us predicted that costs for medications would sky rocket as would all health\/medical costs. You dismissed our concerns and put the full power and credibility of AARP behind YOUR support of Medicare Part D[umb]. And guess what? We, the concerned non-supporters of that measure, were correct.<\/p>\n
In my emails to you since that time I have asked for an apology. None came – I have not even seen you discuss your role in this \u2013 but then I don\u2019t read every page of the AARP materials. I’ve also wondered what, if any, were the financial gains to you personally and to AARP – as it sells it’s “name” to some of the very \u201chealth care\u201d companies that are constantly raising their rates. <\/p>\n
You keep sending out letters telling me that medical costs are increasing. Duh! I think we all know this. But it\u2019s when you say that health care must be more affordable that you really anger me. See I blame you for a large part of the increased costs of much of this due to your support of Medicare Part D[umb]. <\/p>\n
Your recent scare letter with it\u2019s underlined, bolded, and large letters is yet another in the long line of mail that I get from you \u2013 all seemingly calculated into scarring us into sending you more money. This is obviously my personal perspective but one that is shared by many I know. And the petition part, along with the request for money comes filled out with my name and\/or my name and address.<\/p>\n
What this means to me is that I need to waste more of my time shredding these forms. And while I am on this train of thought \u2013 I need to carefully go through your magazines to pull out and shred all the advertising in it, which also has my name and address pre-printed! I mentioned this a friend and she said she just tosses the magazine without reading – so now she too will have to go through and pull out the ads for shredding. <\/p>\n
Add to this the endless junk mail from your advertisers and alleged \u201chealth care\u201d partner \u2013 also all filled out for me…. and I wonder why you tell us to be careful about identity theft when you seemingly add to the potential for that problem! <\/p>\n
For all these reasons I am no longer an AARP member. I renewed a while ago as I had signed up for your alleged \u201cheath care\u201d partner\u2019s insurance which required that I be a member. That \u201cpartner\u201d misrepresented its monthly costs and got downright nasty when I cancelled. But that\u2019s another issue which I\u2019m sure you will ignore.<\/p>\n
Yours truly,<\/p>\n
Lynn Dorman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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