Description: This is a discussion about the impact the 1965 OASDI changes will have on group long-term disability insurance and group medical insurance. Also discussed are the rates of growth of separate accounts and variable annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 50.

Description: This paper introduces continuing care retirement communities and outlines the major recent developments in financing procedures and regulatory requirements aimed at keeping these entities solvent. In particular, it describes the Actuarially Based Financial Management System created by the AAA and the accounting Statement of Position 90-8 promulgated by the AICPA. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995 Vol. 47

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books: 1. 'Fundamental Mathematics of Life Insurance' by Floyd S. Harper and Lewis C. Workman, 2. 'Mathematics of Compound Interest' by Marjorie V. Butcher and Cecil J. Nesbitt, 3.'Compound Interest and Annuities-Certain' by D. W. A. Donald, 4. 'Demography' by P. R. Cox, 5. 'The Spirit and the Uses of the Mathematical Sciences' edited by Thomas L. Saaty and F. Joachim Weyl, 6. 'Ethics, Morality, and Insurance' by John D. Long, 7. Reports of the 1971 Advisory Council on Social Security, 8. 'Medical Care at Public Expense' by Mark V. Pauly 9. 'Eleventh Actuarial Valuation of the Assets and Liabilities under the Railroad Retirement Acts as of December 31, 1968, with Technical Supplement' by the Railroad Retirement Board, 10. 'Nouvelles tables-types de mortalité' by Sully Ledermann, 11. 'A Table of Expected Working Life for Men, 1968' by Howard W. Fullerton, 12. 'Disability-Determination and Evaluation' by Henry H. Kessler, 13. 'Industrial Safety Statistics: A Re-examination' by Jerome B. Gordon, Allan Akman, and Michael L. Brooks, 14. 'Pensions and Severance Pay for Displaced Defense Workers' by Hugh Folk and PauI Hartman, 15. 'Trends and Variations in Fertility in the United States' by Clyde V. Kiser, Wilson H. Grabill, and Arthur A. Campbell, 16. 'Benefit Plans in Junior Colleges' by Francis P. King, 17. 'The Consumer's Guide to Insurance Buying' by Vladimir P. Chernik, and 18. 'Private Pension Scheme Finance' by Sylvia and Leslie Tutt. Notices of other studies and articles are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1971, Vol. 23, Pt. 1, No. 67.

Description: This section of book reviews covers topics of pension mathematics, cost of hospital care, variable life insurance, probability theory and early retirement programs. Also included in this article is information from U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 68.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1962 and 1963: 1. 'Health Insurance Provided through Individual Policies' by Edwin L. Bartleson, 2. 'Law and the Life Insurance Contract' by J. E. Greider and W. T. Beadles, 3. 'Medical Care and Health Insurance' by J. F. Follmann, Jr., and 4. 'Hospital and Medical Economics: A Study of Population, Services, Costs, Methods of Payment, and Controls' by W. J. McNerney. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 43.

Description: This is a panel discussion about the future of health care and health care insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 58

Description: This paper describes the construction of the 1965 Supplementary Major Medical Tabular used to measure expect4ed claims. The paper also comments on the relationship of the intercompany 1963-65 experience to it. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 56 AB.

Description: This is a discussion about medical care insurance rating including morbidity, impact of group size and underwriting transfer cases. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17 Pt. 2, No. 47 AB

Description: This far-ranging discussion of health insurance and employee pensions discussed expansion of health insurance plans to encompass the additional forms of medical care and treatment, intercompany studies of mortality and morbidity, accidental death coverage are written on a twenty-four-hour basis or as travel accident, dental care insurance, survivorship benefits, employer-sponsored death benefits incorporated into qualified pension plans, and other topics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol 15 Pt. 2

Description: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the major health issues facing the United States of affordable care and cost controls. While this paper does not develop a specific health plan, it does analyze the problems and give direction. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.