May  Meeting:  May 27th, 2004 

Location: Wilson’s   4925 New Centre Drive Wilmington, NC

Speaker:  Chapter Awards               

 

Sponsor: TBA

President's Message:
Tim Walsh

 

April/May 2004

 

 

Welcome to our newest members since our last newsletter:  E. Paige Benson, Jane Burnett, Frank Garrison, Parks Griffin, David Lavely, Lance Rucks, Brandon Sproles, Betty Tacozza and Lance Rucks.  This brings our Coastal membership to 73, the largest ever.  Thanks to those who share the vision and have invited others to join us.

 

We’ve timed this newsletter as a last minute reminder about the golf tournament this Thursday, May 6th at Castle Bay in Hampstead.  Our charity this year is the Tileston Outreach Health Clinic in Wilmington and as of our last board meeting, Tim Cook has us on track to have one of the best turnouts ever.  We can always use more players and it won’t be too late if you act quickly.  Call Tim at 392-3371 to get last minute information.  Thanks to all of our sponsors for their generosity.

 

We’ve had some great speakers at our last couple of meetings.  Two representatives from NHRMC in January and February, and our April joint meeting with WAIFA featured our state lobbyist Robert Paschal.  If you haven’t already put us on your calendar for May 27th, please do so now.  As we await the results of our latest Pacesetter submission we will be honoring new RHU’s, membership recruiters, HUPAC donors and LPRT qualifiers.  This will be our last get together for the “association year” and if you haven’t found the time yet this year, please do so now.  Don’t worry though, we will email and fax you AGAIN just to make sure you don’t forget.

 

Please take the time to read our other committee members’ submissions for other happenings.  I hope to see many of you at the golf tournament and ALL of you on May 27th.

 

Legislative News:

David Hill


L & L Notes

 

 

We had a great Capitol Conference with great speakers.  Tim, Hughes, Mel and I attended and I must say it was the best one I have attended.  How fortunate we are to live in a country where we can meet face to face with our legislators and express our opinions and ask them to vote either for or against a bill.  We even had a private guided tour of the Capital and the Rotunda from Mike MacIntyre.  We were able to see politics in action as we watched a bill being voted on from the VIP section of the chambers!  That was pretty impressive.

 

NAHU is very much in the center of all that is happening in Washington with any bill on healthcare, be it Medicare, HSAs or Long Term Care.  So much so that Janet Trautwine and Tom Brudele were asked to be at the Whitehouse when the President gave his last speech which included the Medicare Drug bill. 

 

HSAs are very much on the radar screen of all those who cast a vote and seem to be very well received.  These people seem to think this is the direction we need to go in an effort to lower the cost of health care.  I think some states have it worse than we do based on that thinking.  In any event, it is the hot topic now and most carriers will introduce an HSA in the future if they haven't already done so.

 

Medicare is another hot topic and has more to come on this one as they attempt to lower costs and increase benefits for seniors.  I predict that we will at some point see another Medicare supplement revamping.

 

Tax breaks for long term care is also being discussed again and has some momentum.  I look for this to happen at some time in the near future.

 

As you know John Kerry would like to have a government run healthcare system.  Here we go again!  The Clintons tried it and it didn't happen, lets hope that if Kerry is elected it will not happen either.

 

We have to continue to support the PACs and NAHU if we want to keep our system alive and us in business.  Do your part, contribute, ask a nonmember to join and continue to support the business we are in.

 

Thank you.

 

David Hill

 

L&L Chairman 

 

 


 

Calendar of Events

                     

                   

 

HUPAC/NCPAC:

 

 

Website          www.cahu.info
Dennis G. Stokley, RHU  

 Remember to Use the
CAHU Website

Have you had a chance to look at the new directory for the state website yet?

 State   www.ncahu.org

In the event you need to change your contact information, please go to the national website or click on this link  www.nahu.org/member/index.cfm  The state web page will now update their list from the national site. 

Take a look at some of our state chapter websites and see what they are doing for their local associations.

Triad  www.tahu-net.org

Western   www.wncahu.org

Coastal   www.cahu.info

Charlotte  www.cahu-nc.org

Triangle  www.nctahu.org

Western Piedmont www.wpahu.org

Dennis G. Stokley, RHU
 
Email: gstokley@bellsouth.net

Membership Update:
Brownie Cordell

I want to thank each of you for your support of the Membership Chair for this year. As we approach the end of the session I am proud to let you know with your support we added nineteen new members this year. Following are the names of our new members:

 

NEW MEMBER                                         COMPANY REPRESENTING                                       SPONSOR

Parks Griffin                 Griffin Estep Benefit Group                   Tim Walsh                   

Dale Baehmann            Independent Services                            Brownie Cordell

Sherri Miller                 The Paragon Group, Inc.                      Nick Ogden

Paige McDonald           Financial Security Associates                Dennis Stokley

Jackson Boyum            AFLAC                                               Amanda Smith

Jimmy Wright               Pinnacle Benefits Groups                      Hughes Warren

Betty Tacozza               BCBS                                                  David Hill

Jane Burnett                 AFLAC                                               Amanda Smith

Paige Benson                AFLAC                                               Amanda Smith

Frank Garrison             James E. Moore Insurance                    Will Bunting

David Lavely                Prime Vision Health, Inc.                     

Sandra Wyrick             United HealthCare                                Tim Cook

Lance Rucks                Alden/North Star Marketing                 Tim Walsh

Clovis Bowen               BCBS                                                  Tracy Mozingo

Brenda Hughes             BCBS                                                  Anne Partine

Linda Howard              BCBS                                                  Gloria Hopper

Ruth Allen                    BCBC                                                  Tim Walsh

Dawn Jones                  BCBS                                                  Hughes Warren

Garner VonCannon      VonCannon and Associates                  Transfer

 

Our membership is 76 STRONG and will continue to grow as members of our industry realize the importance of our organization. If you know one of our new members, please call them and thank them for joining CAHU.

 

My last challenge to the membership as outgoing Membership Chair is to join us for our last meeting this year on May 27th at Wilson’s. Many of you have had scheduling conflicts throughout the year but I encourage you to mark your calendar TODAY AND ATTEND.

 

It has been a “FUN” year. See you on the 27th!!!!!

 

Brownie Cordell

Membership and Retention Chairperson

Public Service:
Continuing Education:
Connette Bradley

 

 

Awards:

M. Hughes Waren, Jr.

 

CONGRATULATIONS to our chapter for another great year!  We have an excellent chance at winning our second National Pacesetter Award.  The Awards Committee submitted our application and Pacesetter book to Nationals on March 25th.  Listed below are some of the highlights of our chapter’s success:

 

·        11% net gain in membership

·        21% of membership gives to our Political Action Committee

·        Completed four public service projects

·        Raised over $2,500 for local charities

·        Provided CE course for our members

 

All of our accomplishments this year have earned us 1,332 points for Pacesetter.  Last year we submitted an application with 1,100 points and WON !!!

 

 

Please come to our final meeting of the year.  During this meeting we are going to recognize all LPRT qualifiers for 2004, congratulate Tim Cook for obtaining his RHU designation, and present the prestigious CAHU “Sparkplug” of the year & CAHU Member of the Year.

 

Media Relations:
Amanda Smith

 

Hospitality:
Patti Hill

 

 

We have had an exciting last half of our "CAHU" year!  In February several members attend the Teddy Bear Ball representing CAHU.  This was a charity event for Duke Children's Hospital.  Our annual charity golf tournament is coming up Thursday, May 6 at Castle Bay.  Proceeds go to Tileston Medical Clinic.  This is our biggest fund raiser, please support CAHU!!  Our CAHU year will end on May 27th as we have our annual Awards Day ceremony.  Again, please come out and congratulate all these folks (you may be one of them!).  June brings National Convention...we hope to have to have 6 members of our chapter there ...to bring home the Pacesetter Award!  It's been a great year and we look forward to

seeing you at the golf tournament and our last meeting of the year.

 

Patti Hill

 

 

 

Please remember that the cost of lunch for CAHU members is FREE.

Guest and non-member lunches are $10. 

Coastal Association of Health Underwriters

Wilmington, NC  28403   May 3, 2004.