Description: The current spotlight on health care reformprovides an excellent platform for actuaries to demonstrate thecontributions they can bring to the table as the debate over keyhealth issues continues. To showcase some of these ideas, theHealth Section of the Society of Actuaries issued a call for essayson "Visions for the Future of the U.S. Health Care System."

Description: SOA President Stephen G. Kellison shares his thoughts on the future of the actuarial profession.

Description: The SOA Actuary of the Future section offers Passing of the Torch, an interview-based project that highlights the personal stories of seasoned actuaries.

Description: In order to encourage health insurance issuers to offer health insurance coverage on the Exchange and on the individual and small group markets, while ameliorating the potential impact on any particular health insurance issuer of providing coverage without pricing for pre-existing conditions or the gender of the insured, the Affordable Care Act includes three risk-sharing programs: the Transitional Reinsurance program, the Risk Corridor program and the Risk Adjustment program (collectively referred to as the “3Rs”). The financial and tax reporting of each health insurance issuer is affected by the implementation of these risk-sharing programs because each health insurance issuer is required to pay for the programs’ costs, and some issuers are or will be eligible for benefits under them.

Description: The paper addresses the issue of cost-sharing reductions under the Affordable Care Act.

Description: The US healthcare system before and after Obamacare – better or worse and what's next?

Description: Feature article discussing the impact of health care reform on the direct insurance market and the reinsurance market.

Description: This is the first report in a series on the current state and future opportunity of the retirement market in China. This report, edition one of the series, summarizes the significant outcomes from the study. Also included in this edition is a retirement forecast outlining the drivers of change for China’s retirement market and the resulting opportunities.

Description: This session discussed Managing The Delivery Of Health Care To Control Medical Costs. Includes organizational & marketing strategies, rate strategies, selection issues, plan design, and regulation. Record of Society of Actuaries 1983 Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: The report looks at the different outcomes for the 50 states from the ACA, in terms of cost and availability of health insurance coverage. It identifies 11 key observations since the passage of the ACA.