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, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. 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 through X at @Think_Allison.
