AARP's mission: Serving seniors or selling insurance?

AARP's mission: Serving seniors or selling insurance?:

"With its literature featuring the smiling faces of happy retirees, every year AARP invites millions of people over age 50 to join its ranks.

The phone message at the main number features Betty White, and its website proclaims, 'No one does more for people over 50 than AARP. And you can get all the perks and benefits for as little as $1 a month. So fill out the quick membership form now!'

But its critics contend the organization should talk less about what it claims to do for seniors and more about what it does to seniors, especially the efforts that generate huge profits on the insurance it sells."