The site says the Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare supplement training is from WebCE. I have taken that course and got my 12 hours of CE so I don't really need that.
The newsletter might be nice. Not sure if that comes at the associate level or not.
Don't really care about the NAMSA logo for my site or business card.
I'm a member of NAMSA. They no longer have a designation after finishing the course but that's not a big deal anyway.
Ron sends out a newsletter at least once a week and goes into detail about changes pending through Congress (or not pending). It's good information but won't help with learning Medicare.
I get Ron's newsletter (NAMSA) and I've had some really great conversations with him. He's a super cool guy and yes the newsletter does help keep me up to date with all the behind the scenes government stuff that I typically would pay absolutely no attention to.
I never let those kind of topics into my Med supp conversations with prospects as for most it's total info overload, but it's nice to know nonetheless.