{"id":1104,"date":"2009-08-18T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2009-08-18T09:29:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T09:29:55","slug":"aarp_losing_members_over_healt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"AARP Losing Members Over Healthcare Reform Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2009-08-17-aarp-health-overhaul_N.htm#uslPageReturn\">USA Today<\/a>&nbsp;reported yesterday that&nbsp;60,000 AARP members terminated their membership since July 1st of this year specifically because of AARP support for current healthcare reform bills.&nbsp; An AARP spokesman reported that AARP typically loses some 300,000 members a month for various reasons.&nbsp; He also stated that during that same period AARP gained some 400,000 new members during the same period and that 1.5 million members renewed their membership.&nbsp; It sounds like the AARP is better at gaining members than keeping them.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I would like to inform people of the alternative to the AARP&#8211;it is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanseniors.org\/pages\/home.aspx?Images=\/images\/index_new.gif\">American Seniors Association<\/a>.&nbsp; I just joined, so I am still learning about the benefits, but I am grateful for an organization that represents Senior Citizens in a way&nbsp;that more closely reflects what I believe than the AARP does.&nbsp; Check out their website at the link above!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today&nbsp;reported yesterday that&nbsp;60,000 AARP members terminated their membership since July 1st of this year specifically because of AARP support for current healthcare reform bills.&nbsp; An AARP spokesman reported that AARP typically loses some 300,000 members a month for various &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}