Description: Comments that were sent to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform regarding value-added taxes and the affects on the CPI.

Description: Updates on the efforts of the Academy’s health practice council. its work groups and task forces, to conduct research and educate health care policymakers on issues including principles for market reform, individual insurance, and risk factors.

Description: Updates on HPC activities, including new work groups for providing input to key players as health care reform moves on from the legislative phase into the regulatory phase, as well as ongoing activities of existing workgroups in financial reporting, long term care, stop loss, disease management, Medicare SUpplement, sovency, cancer claims experience, and risk adjustment.

Description: A discussion of issues and developments that threaten the collective confidence of the LTC insurance industry, including job cutting, changes in reporting requirements, and compliance audits.

Description: This article reviews the experience and restructuring that has taken place in the life insurance industry since the Asian economic crisis reached Korea. It also discusses the recent trends of the life insurance industry.