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Jo ann it was unexpected. I have spent over 25 years in Public Service in a number of Government Agencies and i had the opportunity to come over and be the head of the aarp organization and spent two years there really trying to institute and constitute the foundation to have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop a strategy for 2020 to make sure aarp was relevant to its members in the 21st century. As part of that transition and building strategy, the opportunity and opening came to be the ceo of aarp. While not planned, it was a wonderful transition for me to be able to move from being an initially a board member for the profile fit forprofit and are running the company. Im the only lead ....
There really trying to institute to constitute the foundation have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop a strategy for 2020 to make sure aarp was relevant to its members in the 21st century. As part of that transition and building strategy, the opportunity and opening came to be the ceo of aarp. While not planned, it was a wonderful transition for me to be able to move from being an initially a board member for the forprofit and are running the company. Im the only leader who has worked at all three organizations. Some of the details, how big is your membership . Members. E 38 million we are close to the largest Membership Organization in the world. Diverse,rs are very one third republican, one third democrat, one third depended. Very voc ....
Proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage. Now, this despite the white house doing an aboutface on its plan changes to the medicare partd Prescription Drug program. It is sticking by its looming cuts to the popular program. Joining me now, ovik roy, of the manhattan institute. Always great to see you. Before we get to the medicare, two medicare stories actually i want to talk about some news that broke this afternoon coming from Kathleen Sebelius at health and human services. They released february total enrollments for obamacare. They said in that month alone 94thousand people signed up. That is down 94thousand. That is down from the levels of january at 1. 1 million. What do you make of these numbers . I dont think that is surprising. I think you will see that slow down. The big burst happened around the holidays b ....
Fukushima plant, the government is spend half a billion dollars. The can indians are on the streets of mumbai because the hospitals are too crowded. Scomplrnlt the United Nations says two Million People left from syrian. Threequarters of the refugees are women and children. So where are they seeking refuge . Over 111,000 have fled to egypt. Jordan has taken in more than 500,000. Nearly threequarters of a million have crossed into neighboring lebanon. There are almost half a million r u gees in turkey. Iraq has more than 171,000. Our correspondence have been meeting some of these refugees in lebanon, the camp is home tom thousands of palestineian refugees. Zania, its going to be talking from the refugee intie and khan. Sa b ra refugee camp in lebanon. Its unusual because most of the refugees in lebanon have been absorbed into the population. Havent they . Reporter well, no. Th ....
Dangerous are still on the loose. What can you tell us about this volatile situation as you watch it unfold on tv here . Well, theres a couple things. Number one, the fbi maintains a legal office in paris. In that office, there are a number of fbi agents. The full cooperation of the fbi both on the intelligence side and Law Enforcement side will be given to the french in order to assist them in any way they may request to locate these two individuals. The on bottom line is that anything that the that the intelligence sources of the United States or the Law Enforcement services of the United States have will be shared in order to bring these people get them off the street and under arrest. So right now theres one suspect. An 18yearold man. Hes under arrest. He surren ....