Description: Accurate forecasts of future health care expenditures for cohorts of elderly individuals can be especially difficult. Current techniques use average per capita costs, based on local experience, adjusted for the cohort's age, sex, institutionalization, and welfare status distribution. This paper presents a method to adjust such per capita cost estimates to reflect more accurately the likely health status of a particular cohort. The adjustment uses the cause-of-mortality profile in the local population, which is a readily available tabulation known to be highly correlated with a major proportion of total medical care expenditures for people beyond age 65. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984, Vol. 36.

Description: Why health care inflation exceeds the Consumer Price Index CPI due to tax implications. Issue No. 37.

Description: Panel discussion exploring likely future scenarios, encompassing: Balance between state and federal regulation, effects of trends in tax regulation, and implications of all-federal or all-state regulation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 2.

Description: This article provides an overview of behavioral economic theory as it relates to health and welfare insurance plans and provides summaries of two sample applications of the theories: enrollment in health insurance exchanges created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and product design considerations in light of vast health illiteracy.

Description: This speaker, President of the Health Insurance Assoc. of America, examines the future of private health insurance in the US. From Record of SOA, 1979 Vol. 5 Nol. 3

Description: This article presents a view of health care as an economic system, suggests a framework for classifying current criticisms of the system, and offers references for further reading.

Description: Essay stating accessibility, affordability and efficiency are the key to success in the future of healthcare.

Description: This paper provides an overview of the employee benefit package, provides data and discusses issues with regard to cost variation, and shows how this data can be combined to provide an understanding of the variation for different employee benefit packages.

Description: This paper provides an overview of the employee benefit package, provides data and discusses issues with regard to cost variation, and shows how this data can be combined to provide an understanding of the variation for different employee benefit packages.

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 details a national report on health care. Most of the Report of the 1970 National Health Forum is given over to the formal papers and prepared commentaries thereon that served to stimulate discussion at the Forum. The papers themselves amount to statements by proponents of what were perceived to be three alternatives in the financing of health care and three alternatives in the organization of health care.