Politics

The 60 Plus Association: A Corporate Assault in "Good-for-Seniors" Clothing

By Anne Landman

The 60 Plus Association, a pharmaceutical industry front group, claims it is a "nonpartisan senior advocacy group," but it really operates counter to elderly citizens' best interests. 60 Plus advocates positions on issues that benefit big corporations but that stand to harm seniors. The head of 60 Plus, James L. Martin, says he wants to "save Social Security," but the group actually advocates a risky plan to privatize Social Security, a position it has advocated since 1995. It has participated in press conferences, issued op-eds and conducted polling designed to support their goal of privatization. Privatization of Social Security is now widely considered a risky proposition in the wake of the financial meltdown on Wall Street, and the biggest beneficiaries of such a plan would likely be the financial institutions that failed so poorly and devastated the country economically in 2009.

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Full post as published by PR Watch on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).