A glass-half-full crowd of benefits brokers and agents – that could be the theme of this year’s National Association of Health Underwriters Capitol Conference. The organization concluded its three day lobbying stint Wednesday with a morning of discussion panels on health reform, remarks from a Republican congresswoman, a talk with a representative from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and an address from NAHU’s president.
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), vice chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, received a warm welcome, clearly having done her homework with discussions of the MLR and age band ratio issues. “I don’t agree with the president on that,” Blackburn said in reference to the White House’s goal of what she says is “sucking profit out of health care.”
