AARP was a partner in making the false claims about Obamacare

Washington Examiner Editorial:

It is clear that President Obama inflicted massive damage on his personal credibility among most Americans with his three false promises on Obamacare: you can keep your health insurance plan if you like it, you can keep your doctor if you want to, and you will save $2,500 a year. Only about a third of respondents to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal survey give him “high marks for being honest and straightforward.” As Democratic pollster Fred Yang explained: “Make no mistake, the president has been weighed down by one issue: his health care law.”

But Obama is not the only one to blame for the Obamacare nightmare. As Politico reported in 2009, it was the Herndon Alliance that came up with the idea of promising people they could keep their insurance plans and doctors so they wouldn't feel threatened by Obamacare. The Herndon Alliance is a Democratic messaging strategy group that leads a coalition of liberal advocacy groups. According to Politico, “When President Barack Obama says Americans can maintain their ‘choice’ of doctors and insurance plans, he is using a Herndon strategy for wringing fear out of a system overhaul.”

At the top of any listing of Herndon Alliance members is AARP, specifically with regard to Obamacare and more generally on health care matters of concern to seniors. The ubiquitous seniors group claims 37 million members and offers them an incredible variety of benefits, information, discounts and advice. As a result, AARP is to seniors what the NRA is to firearm enthusiasts. Just as the NRA can put put the kibosh on gun control bills, the prospect of AARP opposition or support can make or break any proposal that affects Americans in their golden years.
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I have no respect for AARP and long ago dropped my membership and all their current solicitations go directly to the trash without being opened.   They are alleged to have a conflict of interest in this project because their affiliated insurance companies stood to gain from the changes Obamacare foisted on seniors.  That they were a willing participant in the lies used to sell this monstrosity could make them vulnerable to litigation.