Description: This session will recap the history of the involvement of the actuarial profession in the debates on health care reform. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This session discussion is about medical technology: trends and proliferation of medical technology, its impact, future, employer strategies to limit exposure, considerations of containing utilization of various procedures and technology. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: In this session 153 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists look at the actuarial background, financial implications, underwriting, and solvency issues posed by various newsworthy items. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session will address the increased cases of managed care in Medicaid states. This will include some indication of how utilization patterns differ for those populations versus commercial populations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: This session discussion will address how you can incorporate diet and fitness in your life to ease stress. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: This discussion from 1977 is an interdisciplinary examination into various methods to control costs under Group Medical Expense coverages. Discussion covers the roles of insurers, employers, health care providers, and the government - and the manner in which they interrelate. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 3, No. 4.

Description: This session 107PD of the Colorado Springs Meeting presents recent trends in benefit design, cost, pricing, risk management, and delivery of behavioral health-care. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: The number of uninsured people in the United States has grown to over 40 million. Many possible solutions have been considered at both the federal and state levels to help alleviate the size and growth of the uninsured population. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 73PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss the potential impacts of recent and prospective legislation on flexible benefit programs, pricing and underwriting considerations in a flexible benefit environment, managed care and flexible benefits, and meeting the challenges that confront employers with flexible benefit programs. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session was about the underwriting and health considerations associate with tobacco use. Detection techniques and cigarette smoking versus tobacco use were also addressed.