We all know how hard it is shopping for a supplemental Medicare Plan, also known as Part D. The Wall Street Journal recently took issue with AARP’s marketing of products like health, life and auto insurance, saying, for instance that the AARP MedicareRX Preferred Plan, insured by UnitedHealth Group Inc., carries the highest premium among all national stand-alone Medicare drug plans. AARP has advocated that the 1.74 million members who make up 9% of the market for Part D plans should switch to a cheaper policy. Kaiser Family Foundation backed up this opinion stating in a report that, “We’re certainly at the point where this AARP plan is so expensive that it’s likely that most people in it could save money by switching,†according to Juliette Cubanski, co-author of a report on the issue.
