Met Life has lowered the rates on their portfolio of term products Click here for a new rate book or contact Steve Gresso for additional information.

The changes in the American General business model and in their senior management are comprehensive.  The focus is toward permanent products with much less emphasis on term.  They have released a number of new products over the last several months.  For more information contact Steve Gresso or Click here to read their news releases.

EZ Life Sales^® is a web based system that allows you to fill out the same on line simplified request for coverage no matter which company your client chooses to purchase from.  Quick and easy for both you and your client, EZ Life offers the top seven term insurance carriers in our portfolio of products.  Paying full commissions and available only through AMG, it is the most effective program on the market for writing term insurance.  Click here to visit the AMG EZlife website or contact Steve Gresso for more information.

Join us for an informative lunch and learn featuring United Healthcare on Sept 11, 2009 at the offices of AMG. Starts at 11:30 and is scheduled to end at 1:00.  Learn while you dine.  Contact Angela Moore for details.  She can be reached at 713.977.0611.

If you have any UHC clients who are subject to Cobra, it is important that you read the revised rules for processing requests to utilize the new premium reduction.   Click here to read.

If you or your clients are a member of BCBS, joining Life Time Fitness will be less expensive.

Life Time Fitness offers you one of the most complete health and fitness experiences around. Amenities include sports courts and rock climbing caverns, personal training and group fitness programming, child care centers, and more. Click here for details.

The Democratic leadership in Congress has acknowledged that they are prepared to take extreme measures to circumvent any attempt by Republicans or Conservative Democrats to prevent passage of a Health Care Reform Bill that includes a Government Run Alternative to Private Insurers. That the majority of the Country doesn't want more Government Intervention and is rightfully concerned about the excessive spending and resultant debit goes unheard. It has become an issue of who is going to control our lives; Government or The Will of the People.   Click here to read the article.

Some once wrote  "You can't change everything you face, but nothing changes unless you face it".  Congress is at home for the month, but Health Care Reform is still on the front burner.  One of our brokers recently attended a "town hall" meeting sponsored by Congressman Gene Green.  Here is part of his email relating what occurred:  

Boy did he get “Blasted” by the majority of those in attendance. There were fewer than a 100 people who attended and all but 2-3 flatly rejected any idea that a public health plan was wanted. They also were against the Cap and Trade Bill. Many of the seniors questioned the wisdom of more spending by Congress and worried that America was printing too much money and damaging our international credit worthiness. Naturally some seniors also worried about the survival of Medicare.

You can sit back and wait to see what happens or you can step up and face it. As someone who is concerned about their career, but more importantly an American concerned about the direction of their Country, you need to contact your elected representative and let them know where you stand.  Click Here for a list of contact information for this area.

Nancy Pelosi, called health insurers "the villains" in the unfolding story of the health care overhaul on Thursday, ratcheting up an anti-insurer theme trotted out by President Obama earlier this month and encouraged by other Democratic leaders in Congress.  Click here to read the article.