Winner · 2026 Agencies for Health Insurance
The health insurance side of the house: Marketplace plans, group benefits, and the coverage questions that arrive long before anyone turns 65.
Guide to Florida · 2026
Voted Best of Florida 2026 — in two categories
Readers picked the winners. Nobody wins a readers' choice award by talking about themselves, which means this one isn't really ours — it belongs to every person who sat down with us, got a straight answer, and remembered it months later. Thank you.
The reviews are the part that earned this. Start there if you'd rather read than call.
The double win
Two statewide wins, one reason
Both wins come down to the same thing: people leaving a conversation understanding their own coverage. That's the whole business.
Winner · 2026 Winner · 2026 Insurance Agencies
The whole agency, judged on the thing we actually control. Whether people leave a conversation understanding their own coverage.
Regional Winner · 2026
Financial Advisors
A regional placement covering the planning side of the work: Social Security timing, retirement income, and the decisions that outlast any one policy.
About the award
What Best of Florida actually is
Best of Florida is the annual readers' choice program run by Guide to Florida, a statewide publication. Businesses are nominated by the public, and the winners are decided by public vote — a popularity result in the most literal sense of the phrase.
So here's the honest version of what it measures. It reflects how people who have dealt with us describe the experience afterwards. It does not rate premiums, it does not evaluate any specific plan, and it says nothing about whether a given plan is right for your situation. Only a conversation about your doctors, medications, and budget can do that.
- Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Medicare, CMS, or any government agency.
- Not awarded, sponsored, or influenced by any insurance carrier.
- Not a rating of plans, prices, or outcomes — a reader vote about service.
There are a lot of industry awards out there, but knowing that these recognitions were driven primarily by votes from clients and people in our community makes this incredibly meaningful to me.
Kate Spilsbury RSSA® · CMIP® — Founder & Licensed Insurance Agent
Behind the votes
What people were actually voting on
Not the badge. The ordinary, unglamorous parts of the job that happen long after a signature.
200+ five-star Google reviews
Unedited, named, and still arriving. The award is downstream of these — read them first.
Someone still answers after you enrol
MereCare is the part people mention most: claims help, annual reviews, a human on the phone.
Independent, and licensed in 11 states
Woman-owned, bilingual, Jacksonville-based, and not owned by a carrier.
RSSA® · CMIP®
Credentials that mean the Medicare and Social Security halves get the same rigour.
Talk with a real person
Now the part the award was actually about
A free, no-pressure conversation about your doctors, your medications, and your budget — and a clear recommendation at the end of it. Confusion is optional.
- No cost to you
- RSSA® · CMIP®
- No pressure, ever