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ABOUT: KIRBY V. NIELSEN 

I am a retired insurance agent who has spent 30 years providing individuals and small businesses with services and products tailored to each client’s need.  I  have been active in Ohio  and national health insurance legislative matters for over 20 years.  My activities were centered around encouraging legislation that would help all consumers and not just a selected few.  I have promoted the concept of freedom of choice in regards to what insurance products individuals can purchase as well as who they can work with in obtaining health care. 

During the last 4-5 years I have become more interested in and an advocate of what is generally called Consumer Directed Health Care (CDHC).  Not just from the standpoint of health insurance policies that support CDHC, but also in ways that the health insurance and health care systems could both become more consumer oriented and directed.  It is the framework of consumer centered care and control that I have developed my critique of many of the items proposed by President Obama as well as the positions adopted by the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) which has been my industry association for many years. 

It is my sincere hope that consumers may take their rightful place in the center of all reform discussions and that ideological based programs that have little basis in success will be rejected as the health care and health insurance systems in the United States.