Being A Medicare Agent Is Like Eating Yourself

Chew thoroughly before you swallow.

It’s hard to walk away from Medicare. I was already working in my current business of College Planning (high school aged students — adults) & Retirement Planning. I decided to work the 2023 Annual Enrollment season as an employee.

The work of a Medicare Agent is straightforward. You speak to Medicare eligible people about the various Medicare (medical) plans available in their area. You check medications, doctors, and other services this individual indicated a need. Every call is different because everyone has different needs.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this is the federal agency that administers the health services for programs like Medicare. Every time they make changes that protect Medicare recipient's and supposedly keep an eye on Medicare agencies — — it only makes things worse for Medicare Agents.

You have no protection. Carriers want agents to have E & O insurance to protect THEM from lawsuit happy consumers. Medicare recipient’s are a group that love to and do complain...often. Don’t misunderstand me — many of the complaints are legitimate.

As an agent you are caught between sales and buyer desire. Other sales professionals reading this probably responded ‘so what’ or ‘welcome to my world’. Medicare…