Description: This session is about supplemental and specialty health products in Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia. It also includes a discussion on health care reform for individual health and long-term care products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: At this 1992 panel discussion, the panelists, including Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, discuss health care and comment on some of the health care proposals that are currently on the table, including the Administration's plan for overhauling the health care system. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This session discusses health alliances, a central component of the President's proposal. Their structure, operations and effect on the market have numerous actuarial implications. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3B.

Description: This session discusses what will happen to supplemental coverages under health care reform. Topics include traditional group ancillary benefits, health care reform supplements, and traditional individual/group niche products? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: In this session at the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting, panelists discuss the issue of the health care uninsured and underinsured. Participants discuss activity at the state level, the federal level, and the work of the American Academy of Actuaries' Work Group.

Description: Panelists discuss issues arising from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses the public policy issues regarding access to health insurance coverage. In particular, the speakers focus on the problem of the uninsured and on the debate of shifting from a primarily employer-sponsored financing of health-care coverage to an individual market system or greater government subsidies.

Description: Panelists discuss various legislative activities at the federal and state levels that affect health organizations doing business in the commercial market including: patient protection, uninsured, coverage mandates, genetic testing and mental health parity. Also included are case studies of New Jersey and New York's approach to coverage for the uninsured. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 80

Description: Why is it that two competent actuaries making reasonable assumptions can arrive at very different conclusions when evaluating the impact of proposed health care reforms? Are the answers really as different as they appear to be on the surface? This presentation from Session 137IF of the SOA 1996 Orlando Annual Meeting outlines and highlights some of the key actuarial issues that arise in the course of these analyses. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss the types of health care reform ideas and how they are analyzed, the specific programs currently in proposed legislation, and the role of the American Academy of Actuaries in the process.