Everyone has to find their niche but I couldn't disagree more with the sentiment that MA is more stable than FE.
I wrote somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 MA plans. I ditched MA in Feb, 2009 and never looked back.
And my income took off when I became laser focused on FE.
Travis wrote more MA plans than I did. He also dumped them in late 2008. He's never looked back either.
I don't want to add MA plans back to my artillery nor have I ever regretted dumping them.
I still write med sups but that opportunity is limited when you run FE leads. Most of my med sup writes come from referrals. Not from FE leads.
I refer out the MA business when I'm asked about it. Same guy I send all my PDP business to.
It would be wrong for me to tell others to not write MA plans. Just as it is wrong for someone to tell others to write MA plans.
Most of the heavy hitters I know in FE do not fool with MA plans. I know some that do that Humana AOR thing just to pick up free money. If any company deserves that stuff going on it's Humana.
One of the problems with adding a TOTALLY DIFFERENT product line is that most FE agents can barely make it while concentrating solely on final expense. Agents would have a much better success rate if they concentrated on 1 thing and 1 thing only. And what I have witnessed on the Medicare side of things is that agents are USUALLY being taught by somebody with barely any Medicare experience themselves. Blind leading the blind to the CMS chop house