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I remember way back (maybe during the Reagan administration when homelessness soared to 4 million?), a news investigation revealed medical debt was a large driver even for those who had health insurance.

UnitedHealth was cited by the investigation for their aggressive “recissions,” terminating the insurance coverage for patients with life-threatening conditions when paying providers was going to bite into profits. They’d scour patients’ insurance paperwork for tiny mistakes to justify dropping them.

Desperately ill patients had to wait for care on appeals that often never resulted in the help they’d paid for in all good faith. And then they’d get dropped. Patients died and families were left destitute.

I suspect AARP was always mostly there to promote AARP and give them cover after the bad publicity. I never have nor ever will give them one dime because of the lives they’ve destroyed.