Tuttle Becomes NAHU President.

Bynum R. Tuttle Jr. became the new leader of the National Association of Health Underwriters, vowing that the 17,000-member association would redouble their efforts to insure every American.

Tuttle took the oath for his one-year term as president June 27 during NAHU's convention in Minneapolis, said spokesman Martin Carr.

While calling the American health-care system the best in the world, Tuttle also noted that more than 40 million Americans don't have "normal" access to health care, because they lack insurance.

"NAHU members will push for passage of a refundable health tax credit, help to improve and spread the word about long-term-care insurance and fight mandates and bad legislation," Tuttle said in a statement.

As agents and brokers, NAHU members are uniquely positioned to positively influence the healthcare system every day across the country, Tuttle said.

"We're on the front line of health care, and it is important that we make a significant difference," he said.

Tuttle, of Denton, N.C., is founder of Employee Benefit Design Inc. He joined NAHU in 1988 and served on the state board of the North Carolina chapter from 1992 to 1997, when he joined NAHU's national board of trustees as chairman of the legislative council.