Your AARP ; Where We Stand
By A. Barry Rand, CEO
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SENIOR VICE PRESIDEN T, PUBLICATIONS Catherine Ventura-Merkel
EDITOR IN CHIEF & SENIOR VP, PUBLICATIONS Hugh Delehanty
GROUP PUBLISHER & VICE PRESIDENT Jim Fishman
VICE PRESIDENT, PUBLICATION OPERATIONS Traci L. Lucien
We’re Fighting for You
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EDI TOR AND VICE PRESIDEN T James S. Toedtman
AARP members have long recognized the need for health care reform to
reduce costs, improve the way care is de-
livered and provide access to care for the
millions of people (many ages 50 to 64)
who don’t have it. Our members and vol-
unteers are committed advocates for re-
form. To us, reform means building on the
best of what we already have, saving mon-
ey and improving care for all Americans.
Recent distortions about health reform have
confused, scared and angered people.
Such myths ignore one essential fact: The
need for reform exists. In fact, it’s growing. Health insurance premiums
have doubled in eight years. Without reform, they’ll rise 10. 5 percent next
year and will double again by 2016 to more than $24,000 per family. Some
14,000 people lose their health insurance coverage every day. Three-fourths
of the people who go bankrupt because of medical costs had insurance. Fi-
nally, Medicare faces a funding problem. Nothing that has occurred in the
health care debate over these past few months has lessened people’s need
for better and more affordable health care, so we must continue the fight.
And as we do, let’s remember what we are fighting for.
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Medicare Part B Monthly Premiums Soar
DEPU T Y EDITOR Teo Furtado
DESIGN DIREC TOR Eric Seidman
EXECU TIVE EDI TORS Barbara Basler, Kim Keister, Carol Simons
MANAGING EDITOR Cathy Ginther
FEATURES EDITOR Barbranda Lumpkins Walls
SENIOR EDITORS Patricia Barry, Carole Fleck, Trish Nicholson
MANAGER, EDITORIAL COPY Brian Miller
COPY EDI TOR Don Beaulieu
SENIOR EDI TORIAL RESEARCHER Roberta Yared
EDI TORIAL RESEARCHER Corinne Hayward
EDITORIAL PRODUCTION MANAGER Cathy L. Hall
ASSOCIATE ART DIREC TOR Cathy Kelley
ASSISTAN T ART DIREC TOR Anne Masters
PHOTO EDITOR Michael Wichita
ASSISTAN T EDI TOR Victoria Lemley
SENIOR EDI TORIAL ASSISTAN T Nicole Williams
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ONLINE DAILY NEWS EDITOR Tina Johnson-Marcel
ONLINE MULTIMEDIA EDI TOR Nicole Shea
ONLINE CON TEN T PRODUCERS Elizabeth N. Bro wn,
Douglas Van Sant
PRODUC TION MANAGER Brian S. Horting
QUALITY MANAGER Mel Baughman
PRODUCTION COORDINATORS Roland A. Bland, Sherry Coleman,
Judy Skilling
ADVER TISING POLICIES MANAGER Pamela Byrd Berard
ADVER TISING POLICIES ANALYS TS Brenda Allen, Mireya G. Donahue
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Protect Medicare. Today and in the future, people must have the health
coverage they need when they retire. We’re fighting to close the Part D
coverage gap—the “doughnut hole”—so we can help lower drug costs for
millions of older people. We’re fighting to ensure that Medicare pays doctors
fairly so people on Medicare can keep the doctor of their choice more eas-
ily. We’re fighting to prevent overbilling by providers and to crack down on
abuse and fraud. We’re also fighting to lower many out-of-pocket costs for
vital preventive services such as screenings and other diagnostic tests and
to improve the coordination of care for people with chronic conditions.
DIR. OF PUBLICATIONS PLANNING & PROMO TION David Singleton
PLANNING & PROMOTIONS MANAGER Heather Nawrocki
ONLINE MANAGING EDI TOR Jane Ryan
EDI TORIAL CON TRAC TS MANAGER Amelia Jones
SENIOR MANAGER, MEDIA RELATIONS Michelle Alvarez
SENIOR RESEARCH ADVISER Earnestine Hargrove
I T SUPPOR T Consuela Allen, William Coulter, Matthew Haines,
Nono Kusuma, Bonnie Russell, Josh Singer
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End age discrimination. We’re fighting to ensure that you cannot be
denied affordable insurance coverage because of your age or health status.
Specifically, there should be strict limits on charging Americans 50-plus
much higher premiums simply because of their age.
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER, ADVER TISING Shelagh Daly Miller
DIREC TOR, SPECIAL ACCOUN TS Ina Nordstrom
NE W YORK SALES MANAGER Peter Zeuschner
TRAVEL CATEGORY MANAGER Patricia Slattery
ACCOUN T MANAGERS Kelly Burke, Raquel Hagen,
Helen Holtzman, Michelle Weisfeld
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER, MARKE TING Patricia Lippe Davis
MARKE TING DIREC TOR Bonnie Maglio
RESEARCH DIREC TOR Mark Bradbury
ASSOC. DIREC TOR, IN TEGRATED MARKE TING & MERCH. Laurie Levitt
ASSOC. DIREC TOR, IN TERAC TIVE MARKE TING Linda Tse Correia
ASSOC. DIREC TOR, MARKE TING EVEN TS & PROMO TION Shari Horowitz
SENIOR MARKE TING MANAGER Chris Tedrick
PROMO TIONS MANAGER Lisa Van Dyne
ADVER TISING BILLING ADMINISTRATOR Surfina Adams
ADVER TISING BILLING ASSOCIATE Tracey Fanuele
ADVER TISING SERVICES ADMINISTRATOR Christine Merklinger
ADVER TISING SERVICES COORDINATOR Lori Cordenner
Allow no one between you and your health care. We’re fighting to
ensure that health decisions are made by you and your doctor, not your
insurance company and not the government.
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Protect consumers. Insurance companies shouldn’t be able to pick and
choose whom they protect. They shouldn’t be able to reject you or charge
an outrageous premium because you got sick once, might get sick in the
future, have lost your job, or your employer has cut coverage. They shouldn’t
be able to gouge you because you’re getting older. Dealing with illness is
hard enough. It should not mean a trip to the poorhouse. You deserve bet-
ter. That’s why we’re fighting for you. And we will continue fighting until
all Americans have the stable, affordable, quality health care they deserve.
Join the effort. Go to healthactionnow.org.;
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