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 presentation, session number 97PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The presenters look at the adequacy of state insurance regulation by examining the purpose and intent of the McCarran-Ferguson Act. They discuss the strengths and weaknesses of state regulation, and “whether the public interest is best served by 1 the states or the federal government being the primary regulators of insurance or 2 some system of bifurcated regulatory authority shared between the states and the federal government.” Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This session discusses the Academy's efforts to address health reform, the latest HIAA activities in the health care debate, and industry implications for proposed legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 This teaching session discusses the available tools for communicating company risk postures to senior management. The focus is on tools that show distributions of results rather than a point estimate.

Description: In session 56PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss financial product distribution systems used by noninsurance financial institutions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the problems with bulk reinsurance, self-administered reinsurance, bulk reporting in facultative reinsurance, certification reports by an actuary and audits.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting focuses on reinsurance issues including profitability, internationalization, product revolutions, joint ventures and financial reinsurance for raising capital.

Description: Panelist discuss lifestyle issues and their effects on medical costs, both for managing costs and for making decisions about plan design. Topics include employer responses, lifestyle-based profiling, and obesity. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31 No. 2, Session 27

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Senior executives in various financial services companies discussed the future of financial services and the role the actuary can play.

Description: From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1 A discussion of the approaches and philosophies used by Canada and the United States: -- Purpose of solvency/current liability valuations -- Benefits and assumptions underlying solvency/current liability -- Conflicts between tax and security valuations -- Effects of these valuations upon plan sponsors (and actuaries)