Older Womens League

It is easy to criticize AARP for not taking an absolutist position on age rating in the current health care debate. We have a responsibility to pursue advocacy aims that can have a constructive impact.

The health committee bill would require older folks to pay some multiple of the premiums charged to younger people for the same coverage, just because of their age.

We need comprehensive elder abuse prevention laws -- using the models of prevention for violence against women and child abuse. It's about time. It's about our mothers.