Description: This panel focuses on the current social and economic issues of health insurance within Canada and the U.S., with particular issues in the United States. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This discussion addresses the following questions about health insurance maternity benefits: 1. What has been the claim, lapse, and expense experience on hospital-medical policies with maternity benefits issued to young married couples? 2. To what extent have hospital-medical policies been introduced with reduced maternity benefits during the early policy years or with no maternity benefits? 3. What other measures are being used to provide maternity benefits on a self-sustaining basis? 4. Are these measures effective? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2

Description: Discusses basic principles which should be observed in the selection of risks for individual health insurance, substandard underwriting, and how sales policies and claim administration practices are related to underwriting.

Description: This discussion focuses on the effect the introduction of provincial hospital plans in Canada has had on the trend of loss ratios on associated major medical expense plans. The discussion further looks at deductible amounts, coinsurance provisions, and maximum limits used under major medical expense plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This discussion reviews the appropriate roles of group insurance, individual insurance and governmental programs in providing protection against the cost of medical care for retired persons and other aged citizens. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This is the twenty-seventh annual report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity insurance. The report contains experience for the years 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973.

Description: Tis is a discussion about many issues related to individual and family major medical insurance including deductibles and coinsurance, experience and trends, coverage for old age and substandard risks, guaranteed renewability for life, limitations for mental illness, and problems in underwriting and claims administration. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: Discussion of the following topics pertaining to disability income and other health insurance: 1. What portions of the loss of income and of the expenses incurred are properly insurable? 2. What special problems are encountered in providing suitable coverage for the following: a Employees and dependents eligible under Group plans b Individuals employed or not employed and their dependents ineligible under Group plans c Aged persons. 3. Methods for companies to meet the problems of overinsurance arising from duplication of coverage or from other causes?

Description: This paper examines the financial dynamics resulting from the currency exchange rate for medical insurance products that are denominated in a currency different from that in which covered medical expenses are incurred. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This is the 1979 report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity insurance.