Description: This discussion at the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting focuses on the polictical landscape with respect to health care issues including Medicare, prescription drug coverage, the concept of a patient's 'bill of rights', and other health care reform ideas.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the wide variety of proposals in Congress to reform the health care/insurance system including Medicare and Medicaid.

Description: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act affects all exchanges of health information. It has a major impact on health-care management and the distribution of health information used in underwriting and claim management practices for all medical and non-medical lines. Also discussed are changes to Medicare, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, and a proposed prescription drug plan under Medicare. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 24PD of the Dallas Spring Meeting.

Description: This session explores the use of genetic testing in the health insurance business and protecting privacy. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 130