Testimonials
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Al Johnson
“The Art of Saving Money”
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Devin & Maria
“Every Dollar You Save Is Important”
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M.L. Collins
“Helping Families Save Money for Over 25 Years”
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Mary Brown
“Spreading the USA+ Gospel”
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Mickey Mann
“Giving Back to the Community”
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Ric Hilliard
“Street Sense Saves $ and ¢”
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Other Members
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M.L. Collins
“Helping Families Save Money for Over 25 Years”
M.L. Collins makes every effort to tell his customers about the savings they can experience through a United Service Association For Health Care membership.
Why? it’s simple: as a veteren health insurance agency CEO FOr C&C benefits group in Oklahoma City, the 65-year-old Collins still gets “a great deal of satisfaction out of training agents who can then show people how to make the right decisions about their health coverage.”
He means it, too. With about 200 agents currently on board and a well-established reputation as a blue-chip provider of health coverage for small-business owners and self employed workers across the country, Collins is proud that his agency often manages to secure health benefits for people who otherwise might not have been able to obtain them.
“I’ve spent the past three decades advising small-business people and their families on how to make the right decisions about health insurance,” he says. “It’s a great feeling when somebody thanks you because they were able to pay their medical bills.”
One of the things Collins likes most about his job, he says, is that it frequently gives him a chance to tell people about the “huge savings” that can be enjoyed through a United Service Association For Health Care (USA+) membership.
“I can’t tell you how often I’ve recommended USA+ programs to our customers,” he says, “or how often I’ve explained that the benefits that accompany membership can provide a major boost to a family budget. In recent years, I’ve made every effort to recruit and train good agents who can help our customers to accomplish this.”
USA+ benefits can help families save money on health care, drug prescriptions, dental or vision care, and more, Collins says. “I get a really good feeling whenever I hear that one of our customers saved money thanks to a USA+ membership,” he says.
The father of four grown children—his wife, Sheryl, is also an accomplished health benefits analyst—Collins says he’s seen how a USA+ membership can help slash bills for medical care right in his own family.
“We have a prescription drug benefit through USA+,” he explains. “Our daughter, who is still in college, needs medication to treat her attention deficit disorder. Thanks to a mail-order program from USA+, the cost is almost nothing! As a manager who spends lots of time advising people about saving money on health care, I really appreciate the budget help we get through our USA+ membership.”
Born and raised in Idabel, Oklahoma as the son of a high school teacher (E.L. “Red” Collins) who was “an honest man and a wonderfully dedicated teacher,” Collins attended Oklahoma State University and then coached football for several years at a Texas public school.
“I had a great time working with the kids,” he says with a chuckle of nostalgia, “but I wasn’t an All-American football player, and I soon realized that I wasn’t going to wind up as the head coach at Kansas or Oklahoma. I had a career choice to make—and I decided that what I loved most was working with people.”
Collins went into sales, and says he’s enjoyed every minute of it. “I truly feel that we’ve been able to help thousands of people,” he says. “You know, I do a lot of recruiting of new agents, and I tell every one: ‘Whatever you do, don’t ever forget that our first job is to keep that customer’s interests at heart!’”