Jeff Miles says health insurance agents and brokers should talk to antitrust lawyers and find out what they can do about the recent wave of compensation cuts, rather than sitting still and assuming that they can't do anything.
Miles, a former president of the California Association of Health Underwriters who sells coverage mainly in group market, says reports about insurers responding to concerns about the individual medical business by suddenly slashing commissions have concerned him and colleagues.
Up till now, for example, the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) has been so careful about antitrust policy that NAHU members can't talk about the subject on NAHU message boards, Miles said.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.
