Interest Groups: AARP
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The American Association of Retired Persons, or AARP, has been involved in New York legislative politics principally in connection with policies about prescription drugs. In 2007, for example, AARP lobbied for a law that would enable the state to buy prescription drugs in bulk and mandate passing the savings to uninsured or underinsured residents of New York (Bridges 2). The high and rising costs of prescription drugs were described as the rationale for AARP's position. The group also called for disclosure by drug manufacturers of the amount of money they spent on marketing, including the gifting of incentives to physician prescribers. With its state-by-state Internet presence, its practice of creating press releases
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