New NAHU President Says Agents Care

"We care," she said in an interview in Dallas at NAHU's annual convention. "We really care."

Another thing that has impressed Fomalont has been the biggest, most successful employers' commitment to their employees' health benefits. Even when the employers were going through mergers, buyouts or other massive changes, the human resources personnel were always worried about the effects of any changes on employees coping with medical crises at home, Fomalont said.

She said health agents ought to join NAHU because it is a group that goes to Congress to explain agents' views of the health care system.

"We most certainly need to stay with the free market," Fomalont said.

But agents also have to find ways to come together with insurers, employers, health care providers and others to bring about effective reforms, she said.