After six years of selling health and life insurance plans, Boise, Idaho, based agent Patricia Somers decided she was sick and tired of the insurance business.
She says she had had enough of the ever-questionable future of the insurance business, the shrinking commissions and the lack of interest in benefits plans from consumers.
"People were not interested in their future and saving with life insurance," Somers explains. "People are so unsure of the future, unsure of how things work. Young people thought it would cost less for health insurance; it was so hard to convince them otherwise with averaging young and old premiums. Besides that, Obamacare was so confusing for agents, let alone clients."
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