| The insurance future has changed and the | | | | paying more than necessary for the cost of |
| insurance future forecast will keep changing. Policy | | | | insurance. The direct cause is the way the |
| coverage premium figures already reflect falling | | | | Government handles Medicare and Medicaid. |
| sales for agents selling health medical plans. Is | | | | Doctors and hospitals only receive partial |
| your insurance future doomed or does it forecast | | | | reimbursement for the benefits patients receive. |
| a new sales opportunity potential? These two | | | | In turn, hospitals and doctors charge privately |
| avenues of your insurance future forecast are | | | | insured patients more to pick up some of this |
| reviewed in this article. | | | | balance. Medicare and Medicaid are not being |
| This article is written primarily for experienced | | | | managed properly, and future payment reserves |
| agents. These agents have already established a | | | | are in serious jeopardy. So how can the Federal |
| sales career, with a good portion being health | | | | Government possibly eliminate private insurance |
| insurance selling. The sky is already or about to | | | | and forcibly impose Universal Health Care? |
| fall on almost every captive insurance agent with | | | | You have a hornet's nest bigger than the UAW or |
| below four years of insurance policy coverage | | | | any union on your side. Should the government |
| selling. Previous statistics unveil that just 5 years | | | | seriously engage on eliminating Medicare Part D |
| back only 7 out of 100 licensed agents reaching | | | | prescription benefits, you are going to have the |
| their fourth anniversary. The present turmoil in | | | | most explosive and powerful lobbyist group |
| the insurance industry forecast is not going to | | | | bombarding legislature. This well funded |
| improve those numbers. | | | | organization has the membership of millions and |
| For an agent selling individual or group major | | | | millions of people over age 50 belonging to it. Get |
| medical policies, the forthcoming clouds of | | | | the leadership angry and it will almost have the |
| uncertainty are looming overhead. Trade magazine | | | | impact of an atomic bomb hitting Capitol Hill. |
| advertising and insurance marketing recruiting for | | | | Protecting the benefits of seniors is their goal, and |
| health and group insurance brokers is taking a | | | | they will run over anyone trying to stop them. |
| nosedive. Consumers and business owners are | | | | During the last forty years, I have seen many |
| uncertain about what is yet to come. This is | | | | changes in the health insurance industry. |
| resulting in new sales and policy upgrades to | | | | Therefore, look at some positive scenarios. Right |
| rapidly decline. Along with this comes a plunge in | | | | now, there are 1,500,000 life and health insurance |
| many agent incomes. | | | | agents in the United States. One-half of them |
| Is universal health care imminent? The | | | | have less than 4.3 years of experience. Eliminating |
| prospective roles of an agent selling individual and | | | | a half million agents attempting a feeble attempt |
| group medical health policies is experiencing | | | | at selling medical insurance coverage would not |
| uncertainty at a high level. It is a terrible time for | | | | hurt you. Whenever new governmental coverage |
| new agents to enter this selling arena. | | | | is introduced, new loopholes always need to be |
| Universal health has the makings of wiping out | | | | filled. Will the government be allowed to send well |
| many of the capabilities of highly skilled agents to | | | | over 1,000,000 additional people into |
| provide customers with the best coverage for | | | | unemployment by devastating the health |
| their individual needs and wants. Altering Medicare | | | | insurance industry? |
| Part D prescription coverage is already occurring. | | | | I honestly do not think so. I say the health |
| There is a overwhelming prediction of eliminating | | | | insurance future forecast is this. If you are an |
| Medicare Part D as probable for a means of | | | | experienced health insurance agent, you will adapt |
| providing some funding of universal health care. | | | | and maximize the new opportunities that the |
| Right now experienced health and medical | | | | insurance future will bring. In the meanwhile, |
| insurance experts may still have a golden lining in | | | | supplementing your income with a couple additional |
| their insurance future forecast. For once all the | | | | insurance products will help. Also look outside |
| powerful insurance company lobbyists are fighting | | | | insurance, for easy add on products to sell. |
| for you, and of course for themselves. They | | | | Now is the time to hit your existing customer |
| need the market to survive, and in turn need you | | | | base hard. It is five times easier to get an |
| to market their products. The insurer lobbyists will | | | | additional sale off a current customer than to |
| be spending massive untold amounts of money | | | | obtain a new one. The insurance future may |
| and shrewdly calling in campaign favors for past | | | | suffer a hailstorm so provide your customers |
| substantial financial contributions. | | | | with a larger umbrella now. |
| Your individual and group major medical clients are | | | | |