CareFirst BCBS: No Commissions for 2018, Terminating Agents?

They are raising their rates 20-50% and no more comp, even on renewals, and it looks like they are not going to let agents sell their products even for free:

"Chet Burrell, the CEO of CareFirst, informed the broker community at the CareFirst Broker Forum that commissions for the individual, under 65 market in MD, DC and VA will cease effective 1/1/2018.

A lot of questions remain unanswered such as the procedures CareFirst will employ to support this change. We don’t have any detail on plans for notification to policy holders of this change [B][U]and the fact that brokers will not have a
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