Calling All Agents

Anyone listening to the news over the last several years would think that the only way to buy your #Obamacare health insurance plan is through Obama's website. Yes, that would be the healthcare.guv we hear so much about. You can also visit with a #navigator that may be hanging out in the parking lot of your local 7-11 or liquor store and sign up on the spot. Allegedly. But it is a little known fact, very little known, that licensed insurance agents that have been helping people make coverage decisions are still around. If you did not know any better, and you may not, you would think health insurance agents were beamed aboard the mother ship and whisked off to a galaxy far, far away where people still buy insurance the old fashioned way. The folks at InsureBlog are pleased to tell you words of our early demise are greatly exaggerated. You can still find an agent willing to assist. Here is what one agent shared about his 6 hour adventure in the Obamaland House of Horrors. I've yet to have a single subsidized policy actually get my info attached to it correctly. Today I spent two hours (yes, really) on the phone and had to do two separate client conference calls to get my name added as the authorized representative. Here was the sequence of events on the most recent one that I did over the course of 4 or 5 days: 1. Client applies online, gets approved for subsidy. My agent info is included on the app. 2. healthcare.gov loses my information, says I am not attached to ...
Source: InsureBlog - Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs