Description: December 2014 issue of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section’s newsletter, The Independent Consultant.

Description: This research report, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries' Health Section, measures the annual frequency of medical errors in the United States and the total measurable cost to the United States economy of these errors.

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Description: This report discusses management decision making practices and the need for actuaries to build the appropriate level of variability for management actions in stochastic models to achieve a more realistic range of future experience among the stochastic scenarios.

Description: Given both the immediate and long-term importance of this topic, the ARSRP is simultaneously issuing both a call for essays and request for research proposals

Description: Read this report, which is part of the series "Understanding and Managing Post-Retirement Risks", to learn more about the perspective of the individual with respects to long-term care, caregiving, and housing issues.

Description: discussion of the experiences of an actuary who presented a lecture in China

Description: The Health Section chairperson discusses the past year's activity, especially the Visions for the Future of the U.S. Health Care System essay contest, and an update on the Untapped Opportunities for Actuaries in Health initiative.

Description: What is the difference between a Single-Payer and Universal Health Care System, and how could the U.S. implement a system that would reduce the growth of medical costs while increasing quality.

Description: This article discusses techniques for predicting mortality.