1000 Health Producers Stage D.C. 'Fly-In'

“While speaking with congressional leadership during the fly-in, our members will place the focus on meaningful health care reform for consumers and the vital role that professional agents and advisors should continue to play,” said NAIFA President Cliff Wilson in a statement before the event.

Health producers are especially concerned about efforts to create a “public health insurance option” and efforts to create a health insurance purchasing program for individuals and small groups. Current proposals would bar insurance agents from participating in the purchasing program.

The producer fly-in offers a “tremendous opportunity for the health insurance producer community to send a loud message to Congress about preserving the private delivery of health insurance and to voice opposition to the creation of a public plan that would unfairly compete against private insurance companies in the health insurance marketplace,” fly-in organizers said.

Coalition leaders said participants will tell their congressional representatives about the important role “professional health insurance advisors, agents, brokers, consultants and employee benefit specialists play in providing health care to millions of Americans.”