Anyone watching the mass gov’t cuts everywhere and you think Medicare will be left alone? Lol

[AgentGeneral]

Sure. There are a lot of agents making huge money in this biz that have never sold a single Medicare policy.
The smart agents that can sell have a license to make money. And they are going to do that.
And even if the whole insurance industry crumbled. You can sell swimming pools. You can sell cars. You can sell solar panels. You can sell houses. You can sellbusinesses. You can sell window washing services and have a whole team of people doing all the work for you.
If you can sell, and you are starving, then you don't have your head screwed on right. And if you can sell, and you have an insurance license, you're really listening to the wrong people if you think you are going to starve.
We are the people with the lease threat to our financial future. People with salary jobs have to worry every day that that thing could go away and they don't know what they're going to do. We don't have that fear. We know we can figure it out.

Yah, I could always move back to california and open a pest control biz. Theres no shortage of places there that need a little spraying or trap laying. ha. Maybe start a new biz, removal of migrant filth. clean up the crap off the streets. I mean, theres some ideas for the younger sales peeps for when medicare comp dries up. Just think of all the regs that need followed in that line. lol.

 

[Dermadawg]

MAPD Duals and ACA are officially on life support

 

[Medicare bro]

MAPD Duals and ACA are officially on life support

Why you say that?

 

[kgmom219]

MAPD Duals and ACA are officially on life support

ACA has been on life support since 2015.

Not 2014. We made a killing in 2014.

 

[axeman462]

nobody thinks medicare will left alone. The man is doing exactly what he was elected for. @DonP is living in a fantasy land... still.

 

[renee15]

Your delusional . Doge will be squeezing the crap out of carriers which translates down to agent commissions and overrides . Doge won't stop till something breaks big

Healthcare executives were among those who wrote the largest of checks to attend fundraising dinners with Trump in an effort to gain his favor and influence his healthcare agenda. During a dinner in November, Pfizer (PFE-0.02%) CEO Albert Bourla and other pharma execs blamed high drug prices on insurance companies and drug middlemen. The following month, Trump said in a news conference that, "We're going to knock out the middlemen."Then in January the CEOs of the companies that own the three largest PBMs — UnitedHealth, CVS,CIGNA, had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, where they argued that pharma companies charged the U.S. more for drugs compared than any other country

 

[renee15]

It's not even if he doesn't touch Medicare for people . He see's the massive fraud by carriers making 10's of billions by inflating codes and gaming the system . He will go after some of that . If carriers get hit then agents get hit. The golden age of massive profit margins in mapd is over

"In the months after the 2024 election and before President Donald Trump's second inauguration, healthcare executives paid millions of dollars to get the ear of the president." Trump can be bought

 

[DonP]

"In the months after the 2024 election and before President Donald Trump's second inauguration, healthcare executives paid millions of dollars to get the ear of the president." Trump can be bought

It's not just what cms does . It's what carriers do too . Carriers have shown zero care to make plans or states non commissionable . Who knows what they do this aep as margins under big pressure

 

[InsuranceGuy29]

nobody thinks medicare will left alone. The man is doing exactly what he was elected for. @DonP is living in a fantasy land... still.

Exactly. They are cutting fraud, waste, and abuse. One of the reasons the Medicare fund was always running out is because of the aforementioned fraud, waste, and abuse.

And also because the Democrat-run government of 12 of the last 16 years has squeezed the ever-loving shit out of insurance companies, and not allowed them to make much of a profit in the health insurance arena. This is, of course, out of blind hatred of all things insurance and private business.

With Trump in office, there is gonna be so much money flowing back into the health insurance sector, people aren't even gonna know what to do. This is one MAJOR thing never registers with my friends across the political aisle.

Trump recently cut 90% funding for those useless "navigators." That's a savings of like $350 MILLION dollars. That's all money that's gonna go to make plans better, and will give the insurance companies more money to work with. Next up for major cuts will be useless redundant government SHIP.

As we saw from 2017-2021 (the Trump years), when the plans are properly funded, and the insurance companies have some extra money to play with, the plan benefits get WAY better, and the commissions also get WAY better.

Stop worrying.

 

[DonP]

Exactly. They are cutting fraud, waste, and abuse. One of the reasons the Medicare fund was always running out is because of the aforementioned fraud, waste, and abuse.

And also because the Democrat-run government of 12 of the last 16 years has squeezed the ever-loving shit out of insurance companies, and not allowed them to make much of a profit in the health insurance arena. This is, of course, out of blind hatred of all things insurance and private business.

With Trump in office, there is gonna be so much money flowing back into the health insurance sector, people aren't even gonna know what to do. This is one MAJOR thing never registers with my friends across the political aisle.

Trump recently cut 90% funding for those useless "navigators." That's a savings of like $350 MILLION dollars. That's all money that's gonna go to make plans better, and will give the insurance companies more money to work with. Next up for major cuts will be useless redundant government SHIP.

As we saw from 2017-2021 (the Trump years), when the plans are properly funded, and the insurance companies have some extra money to play with, the plan benefits get WAY better, and the commissions also get WAY better.

Stop worrying.

You're right there cutting fraud and abuse . Perfect example is United healthcare stock down $40 this am as doj investing massive fraudulent over billing in its mapd . They're saying unh ( and all carriers ) used fraudulent billing codes to falsely bill billions of extra money , How this affects agents is if we make a lot less than you make a lot less or none . It's no different than any other industry . When profitability falls big everyone effected . Mapd's going nowhere but comp structure will .